Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau Race, Gender, and Public Policy in the Age of Emancipation /
Farmer-Kaiser, Mary.
Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau Race, Gender, and Public Policy in the Age of Emancipation / [Recurso electrónico] : Mary Farmer-Kaiser. - 1st ed. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (xiv, 275 p. :) ill. ; - Reconstructing America . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-268) 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.
Libro Electrónico
9780823249015
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Social aspects.
African American women--Social conditions--Southern States--19th century.
African American women--History--Southern States--19th century.
Electronic books.
E185.2 / .F277 2010
975/.041
Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau Race, Gender, and Public Policy in the Age of Emancipation / [Recurso electrónico] : Mary Farmer-Kaiser. - 1st ed. - New York : Fordham University Press, 2010. - 1 online resource (xiv, 275 p. :) ill. ; - Reconstructing America . - Book collections on Project MUSE. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-268) 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.
Libro Electrónico
9780823249015
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Social aspects.
African American women--Social conditions--Southern States--19th century.
African American women--History--Southern States--19th century.
Electronic books.
E185.2 / .F277 2010
975/.041
2251-8215
