Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau : race, gender, and public policy in the age of emancipation /
Farmer-Kaiser, Mary.
New York : Fordham University Press,
2010.
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.
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
African American women
African American women
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)