Women's Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen's Aid Movement

by Carol Faulkner

Book Overview

In this first critical study of female abolitionists and feminists in the freedmen's aid movement, Carol Faulkner describes these women's radical view of former slaves and the nation's responsibility to them. Moving beyond the image of the Yankee schoolmarm, Women's Radical Reconstruction demonstrates fully the complex and dynamic part played by Northern women in the design, implementation, and administration of Reconstruction policy. This...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812219708
• ISBN13: 9780812219708
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"