Article
Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau: Race, Gender, and Public Policy in the Age of Emancipation
The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography
(2011)
Abstract
African American women in the immediate post-Civil War era found themselves embroiled in a struggle with white landowners for control of their own labor and custody of their own children and sometimes for autonomy within theit own households. Freedwomen, as Farmer-Kaiser so aptly demonstrates, had a more realistic picture that "womanhood and dependency did not necessitate the unconditional surrender of authority, indeed freedom, to others-whether it be the federal government, white employers or black men" (pp. 62-63).
Keywords
- Labor shortages,
- Labor contracts,
- African Americans,
- Children
Disciplines
Publication Date
2011
Citation Information
Larry A. Greene. "Freedwomen and the Freedmen's Bureau: Race, Gender, and Public Policy in the Age of Emancipation" The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography Vol. 119 Iss. 2 (2011) p. 187 - 188 ISSN: 2330-1317 Available at: http://works.bepress.com/larry-greene/13/