Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau: Race, Gender, and Public Policy in the Age of Emancipation

by Mary Farmer-Kaiser

Book Overview

Established by congress in early 1865, the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands-more commonly known as the Freedmen's Bureau-assumed the Herculean task of overseeing the transition from slavery to freedom in the post-Civil War South. Although it was called the Freedmen's Bureau, the agency profoundly affected African-American women. Until now remarkably little has been written about the relationship between black women and this federal...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823232115
• ISBN13: 9780823232116
• Release Date: May 2010
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"