Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau : Race, Gender, and Public Policy in the Age of Emancipation /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Farmer-Kaiser, Mary
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
United States. > Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Social aspects.
African American women > Southern States > Social conditions > 19th century.
African American women > Southern States > History > 19th century.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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