Legislation  respecting  abandoned  property.  The  occupa
tion  of  plantations  and  the  employment  of  freedmen.  '
Establishment  of  the  Freedmen's  Bureau.  Regulations  as
to  labor  contracts.  Operation  of  the  new  system.  Local
regulations  concerning  freedmen.  The  reports  of  Gen
erals  Schurz  and  Grant  on  the  condition  of  the  freedmen.
V  SOUTHERN  ATTEMPTS  AT  RECONSTRUCTION      125-151

The  problem  of  agricultural  labor.  Attitude  of  the  "poor
whites"  to  the  freedmen.  Difficulties  presented  by  South
ern  civilization.  \/M5xed  results  of  the  influence  of  the
Freedmen's  Bureau.  State  legislation  as  to  freedmen.
The  master  and  apprentice  law  of  Mississippi.  Legisla
tion  concerning  vagrants.  As  to  civil  rights  of  freedmen.
Legislation  of  South  Carolina  concerning  freedmen.  Pro
vision  for  infirm  colored  people.  Vagrancy  laws.  Va
grancy  laws  of  Virginia.  General  Terry's  order  prohib-


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CHAPTER  PAGES

iting  their  enforcement  in  the  case  of  freedmen.  The  lib
eral  laws  of  North  Carolina  as  to  freedmen.  The  legisla
tion  of  Alabama.  Civil  rights  of  freedmen.  Vagrancy
laws.  Master  and  apprentice  act.  Fundamental  principle
of  Southern  legislation  as  to  freedmen.  The  chief  statu
tory  applications  of  this  principle.  Northern  resentment
against  the  legislation  of  Mississippi.  Basic  difference  be
tween  the  Northern  and  Southern  view  of  race  relation  in
the  South.
ri     THE  RECONSTRUCTION   LEGISLATION       .        153-1-86

Lincoln's  reorganization  and  Johnson's  restoration.  Dif
ferences  between  Lincoln  and  his  Cabinet.  Stanton's  plan
of  military  government  for  Virginia  and  North  Carolina.
