Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau : race, gender, and public policy in the age of emancipation /

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Established in early 1865, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - more commonly known as 'the Freedmen's Bureau' - assumed the task of overseeing the transition from slavery to freedom in the post-Civil War South. This book explains fully the Bureau's relationshi...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Farmer-Kaiser, Mary
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2010.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Reconstructing America (Series)
Temas:
United States. > Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
United States. > Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
1800-1899
African American women > Southern States > History > 19th century.
African American women > Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Social aspects.
Noires américaines > États-Unis (Sud) > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Noires américaines > États-Unis (Sud) > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
African American women
African American women > Social conditions
Social aspects
Southern States
United States
Electronic book.
History
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  • 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 women are 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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