LEADER 02987nam 2200517Ia 450 001 9910816041003321 005 20230207231330.0 010 $a0-8232-3494-0 010 $a0-8232-3213-1 035 $a(CKB)2550000000017380 035 $a(MH)012511450-8 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000021357 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239521 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239521 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10389906 035 $a(OCoLC)712990680 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000017380 100 $a20100107d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 200 10$aFreedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau$b[electronic resource] $erace, gender, and public policy in the age of emancipation /$fMary Farmer-Kaiser 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (xiv, 275 p. )$cill. ; 225 1 $aReconstructing America 311 $a0-8232-3211-5 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: "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. 330 8 $aEstablished in early 1865, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands - more commonly known as 'the Freedmen's Bureau' - assumed the task of overseeing the transition from slavery to freedom in the post-Civil War South. This book explains fully the Bureau's relationships with freedwomen, freedmen and black communities. 410 0$aReconstructing America (Series) 606 $aAfrican American women$zSouthern States$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aAfrican American women$zSouthern States$xSocial conditions$y19th century 606 $aReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)$xSocial aspects 615 0$aAfrican American women$xHistory 615 0$aAfrican American women$xSocial conditions 615 0$aReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)$xSocial aspects. 676 $a975/.041 700 $aFarmer-Kaiser$b Mary$01655815 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816041003321 996 $aFreedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau$94008354 997 $aUNINA 999 $aThis 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