02987nam 2200517Ia 450 991081604100332120230207231330.00-8232-3494-00-8232-3213-1(CKB)2550000000017380(MH)012511450-8(StDuBDS)EDZ0000021357(MiAaPQ)EBC3239521(Au-PeEL)EBL3239521(CaPaEBR)ebr10389906(OCoLC)712990680(EXLCZ)99255000000001738020100107d2010 uy 0engur|||||||||||Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau[electronic resource] race, gender, and public policy in the age of emancipation /Mary Farmer-Kaiser1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20101 online resource (xiv, 275 p. )ill. ;Reconstructing America0-8232-3211-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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.Reconstructing America (Series)African American womenSouthern StatesHistory19th centuryAfrican American womenSouthern StatesSocial conditions19th centuryReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)Social aspectsAfrican American womenHistoryAfrican American womenSocial conditionsReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)Social aspects.975/.041Farmer-Kaiser Mary1655815MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816041003321Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau4008354UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress