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.