• Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau : race,gender, and public policyin the age of emancipation
  • Record Type: Electronic resources : monographic
    Title Information: race,gender, and public policyin the age of emancipation
    Author: Farmer-KaiserMary,
    Secondary Intellectual Responsibility: Project Muse
    Place of Publication: New York
    Published: Fordham University Press;
    Year of Publication: 2010
    Edition: 1st ed.
    Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 275 p.)ill. :
    Series: Reconstructing America
    Subject: Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - Social aspects -
    Subject: African American women - Social conditions - Southern States - 19th century -
    Subject: African American women - History - Southern States - 19th century -
    Online resource: http://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780823249015/
    Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-268) and index
    ISBN: 9780823249015electronic bk.
    ISBN: 9780823232116hbk.
    ISBN: 0823232115hbk.
    ISBN: 9780823232123pbk.
    ISBN: 0823232123pbk.
    ISBN: 9780823232130ebook
    ISBN: 0823232131ebook
    Content Note: Introduction: "a long time in want of a bureau" -- That the freed-women ... may rise to the dignity and glory of true womanhood : the men, purpose, and gendered freedom of the Freedmen's Bureau-- A weight of circumstances like millstones about their necks to drag and keep them down : freedwomen, federal relief, and the Freedmen's Bureau -- The womenare the controlling spirits : freedwomen,free labor, and the Freedmen's Bureau -- To put forth almost superhuman efforts to regain their children : freedwomen, parental rights, and the Freedmen's Bureau -- Strict justice for every man, woman, and child : gender, justice, and the Freedman's Bureau
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