MARC Record from Library of Congress

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001 2009054041
003 DLC
005 20100202080152.0
008 100107s2010 nyu b 001 0 eng
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050 00 $aE185.2$b.F277 2010
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100 1 $aFarmer-Kaiser, Mary.
245 10 $aFreedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau :$brace, gender, and public policy in the age of emancipation /$cMary Farmer-Kaiser.
260 $aNew York :$bFordham University Press,$cc2010.
263 $a1004
300 $ap. cm.
490 0 $aReconstructing America
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction -- 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.
610 10 $aUnited States.$bBureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
650 0 $aAfrican American women$zSouthern States$xHistory$y19th century.
650 0 $aAfrican American women$zSouthern States$xSocial conditions$y19th century.
650 0 $aReconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)$xSocial aspects.