Abstract The Reconstruction Era has garnered renewed attention from legal historians and scholars of the critical race tradition. Yet Reconstruction’s central institutional actor, the Freedmen’s Bureau—a federal agency created to aid emancipated persons’ transition to freedom—has largely eluded theoretical scrutiny. Building upon legal scholarship on Reconstruction, this Essay pans focus away...
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