Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau
Subtitle: race, gender, and public policy in the age of emancipation
By: Mary Farmer-Kaiser.
Series: Reconstructing America
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780823232116; 9780823232123; 9780823232130
Subjects: United States. -- Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands; 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
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: That the freed-women . . . may rise to the dignity and glory of true womanhood; title: A weight of circumstances like millstones about their necks to drag and keep them down; title: The women are the controlling spirits; title: To put forth almost superhuman efforts to regain their children; title: Strict justice for every man, woman, and child.