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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Farmer-Kaiser Mary
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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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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Fordham University Press, 2010 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (xiv, 275 p. ) : ill. ; |
| Disciplina: | 975/.041 |
| Soggetto topico: | 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 | |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau |
| ISBN: | 0-8232-3494-0 |
| 0-8232-3213-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816041003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Reconstructing America (Series)