LEADER 04583nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910463252203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a0-8122-0391-7 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812203912 035 $a(CKB)2670000000418281 035 $a(EBL)3442156 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001101711 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11724654 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001101711 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11072501 035 $a(PQKB)10487500 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3442156 035 $a(OCoLC)868219035 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27775 035 $a(DE-B1597)449709 035 $a(OCoLC)979756239 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812203912 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3442156 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10748582 035 $a(OCoLC)859160997 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000418281 100 $a20060606e20062004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aWomen's radical reconstruction$b[electronic resource] $ethe freedmen's aid movement /$fCarol Faulkner 210 $aPhiladelphia, Pa. $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$d2006 215 $a1 online resource (208 p.) 300 $aOriginally published: 2004. 311 $a0-8122-1970-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [153]-191) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction -- $tChapter 1. Dependency, Gender, and Freedmen's Aid During the Civil War -- $tChapter 2. The Freedmen's Aid Movement Reorganized -- $tChapter 3. Women and the American Freedmen's Union Commission -- $tChapter 4. Mothers of the Race: Black Women in the Freedmen's Aid Movement -- $tChapter 5. The Freedmen's Bureau and Material Aid -- $tChapter 6. Land Schemes -- $tChapter 7. Female Employment Agents and Mrican American Migration to the North -- $tChapter 8. The Limits of Women's Radical Reconstruction -- $tConclusion -- $tNotes -- $tIndex -- $tAcknowledgments 330 $aIn this first critical study of female abolitionists and feminists in the freedmen's aid movement, Carol Faulkner describes these women's radical view of former slaves and the nation's responsibility to them. Moving beyond the image of the Yankee schoolmarm, Women's Radical Reconstruction demonstrates fully the complex and dynamic part played by Northern women in the design, implementation, and administration of Reconstruction policy. This absorbing account illustrates how these activists approached women's rights, the treatment of freed slaves, and the federal government's role in reorganizing Southern life.Like Radical Republicans, black and white women studied here advocated land reform, political and civil rights, and an activist federal government. They worked closely with the military, the Freedmen's Bureau, and Northern aid societies to provide food, clothes, housing, education, and employment to former slaves. These abolitionist-feminists embraced the Freedmen's Bureau, seeing it as both a shield for freedpeople and a vehicle for women's rights. But Faulkner rebuts historians who depict a community united by faith in free labor ideology, describing a movement torn by internal tensions. The author explores how gender conventions undermined women's efforts, as military personnel and many male reformers saw female reformers as encroaching on their territory, threatening their vision of a wage labor economy, and impeding the economic independence of former slaves. She notes the opportunities afforded to some middle-class black women, while also acknowledging the difficult ground they occupied between freed slaves and whites. Through compelling individual examples, she traces how female reformers found their commitment to gender solidarity across racial lines tested in the face of disagreements regarding the benefits of charity and the merits of paid employment. 606 $aFreedmen$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAfrican Americans$xHistory$y1863-1877 606 $aWomen social reformers$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aRadicalism$zUnited States$xHistory$y19th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aFreedmen$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xHistory 615 0$aWomen social reformers$xHistory 615 0$aRadicalism$xHistory 676 $a973.7/14 700 $aFaulkner$b Carol$01046742 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463252203321 996 $aWomen's radical reconstruction$92473887 997 $aUNINA