Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. Chapter 1. Dependency, Gender, and Freedmen's Aid During the Civil War 9
5. Chapter 2. The Freedmen's Aid Movement Reorganized 27
6. Chapter 3. Women and the American Freedmen's Union Commission 43
7. Chapter 4. Mothers of the Race: Black Women in the Freedmen's Aid Movement 67
8. Chapter 5. The Freedmen's Bureau and Material Aid 83
9. Chapter 6. Land Schemes 100
10. Chapter 7. Female Employment Agents and Mrican American Migration to the North 117
11. Chapter 8. The Limits of Women's Radical Reconstruction 132
12. Conclusion 148
13. Notes 153
14. Index 193
15. Acknowledgments 199