Faulkner, Carol.

Women's Radical Reconstruction : The Freedmen's Aid Movement. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (209 pages)

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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Reconstructie.
Freed persons-United States-History-19th century.
African Americans-History-1863-1877.
Women social reformers-United States-History-19th century.
Radicalism-United States-History-19th century.


Electronic books.

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