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Women's Radical Reconstruction : the Freedmen's Aid Movement
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- Online
- Summary
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Carol Faulkner offers a vivid social history of the way the women's radical reform movement shaped government policy toward former slaves in the Civil War and Reconstruction era.
Details
- Creator
- Carol Faulkner
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2004]
- ©2004
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (208 pages) : illustrations
- text file PDF
- ISBNs
- 9780812203912, 0812203917, 0812237447, 9780812219708
- OCLC
- ocn979756239
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-191) and index.
- Carol Faulkner is Associate Professor of History at SUNY, Geneseo.
- In English.
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Dependency, Gender, and Freedmen's Aid During the Civil War -- Chapter 2. The Freedmen's Aid Movement Reorganized -- Chapter 3. Women and the American Freedmen's Union Commission -- Chapter 4. Mothers of the Race: Black Women in the Freedmen's Aid Movement -- Chapter 5. The Freedmen's Bureau and Material Aid -- Chapter 6. Land Schemes -- Chapter 7. Female Employment Agents and Mrican American Migration to the North -- Chapter 8. The Limits of Women's Radical Reconstruction -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments