Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau : race, gender, and public policy in the age of emancipation

Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau : race, gender, and public policy in the age of emancipation / Mary Farmer-Kaiser.

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 relationshi...

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Main Author: Farmer-Kaiser, Mary
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Reconstructing America (Series)
Subjects:
United States. > Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
United States. > Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands
1800-1899
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.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
African American women
African American women > Social conditions
Social aspects
Southern States
United States
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