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Women's Radical Reconstruction : The Freedmen's Aid Movement /

In this first critical study of female abolitionists and feminists in the freedmen's aid movement, Carol Faulkner describes these women's radical view of former slaves and the nation's responsibility to them. Moving beyond the image of the Yankee schoolmarm, Women's Radical Recon...

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Autor principal: Faulkner, Carol
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; 1 Dependency, Gender, and Freedmen's Aid During the Civil War; 2 The Freedmen's Aid Movement Reorganized; 3 Women and the American Freedmen's Union Commission; 4 Mothers of the Race: Black Women in the Freedmen's Aid Movement; 5 The Freedmen's Bureau and Material Aid; 6 Land Schemes; 7 Female Employment Agents and African American Migration to the North; 8 The Limits of Women's Radical Reconstruction; Conclusion; Notes; Index; Acknowledgments.