Women's Radical Reconstruction : The Freedmen's Aid Movement.
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- 9780812203912
- 973.7/14
- E185.2.F38 -- W66 2006eb
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.
Carol Faulkner offers a vivid social history of the way the women's radical reform movement shaped government policy toward former slaves in the Civil War and Reconstruction era.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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