Includes bibliographical references (pages [152]-191) and index.
Contents
Dependency, gender, and freedmen's aid during the Civil War -- The freedmen's aid movement reorganized -- Women and the American Freedmen's Union Commission -- Mothers of the race : Black women in the freedmen's aid movement -- The Freedmen's Bureau and material aid -- Land schemes -- Female employment agents and African American migration to the North -- The limits of women's radical reconstruction.