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Autore |
Farmer-Kaiser Mary |
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Titolo |
Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau [[electronic resource] ] : race, gender, and public policy in the age of emancipation / / Mary Farmer-Kaiser |
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New York, : Fordham University Press, 2010 |
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ISBN |
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0-8232-3494-0 |
0-8232-3213-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xiv, 275 p. ) : ill. ; |
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Collana |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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African American women - Southern States - History - 19th century |
African American women - Southern States - Social conditions - 19th century |
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) - Social aspects |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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Established in early 1865, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - more commonly known as 'the Freedmen's Bureau' - assumed the task of overseeing the transition from slavery to freedom in the post-Civil War South. This book explains fully the Bureau's relationships with freedwomen, freedmen and black communities. |
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