Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau : race, gender, and public policy in the age of emancipation
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Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau : race, gender, and public policy in the age of emancipation
（Reconstructing America / Paul A. Cimbala, series editor）
Fordham University Press, c2010
- : cloth
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [238]-268) and index
Contents of Works
- Introduction
- That the freed-women . . . may rise to the dignity and glory of true womanhood
- A weight of circumstances like millstones about their necks to drag and keep them down
- The women are the controlling spirits
- To put forth almost superhuman efforts to regain their children
- Strict justice for every man, woman, and child
