Women"s Radical Reconstruction The Freedmen"s Aid Movement Carol Faulkner "Important for its contribution to redefining women"s activism."--Choice "A pioneering account of the work for and by freedmen."--Journal of American History "Faulkner"s fascinating and important book focuses on the role of Northern black and white women in the freedmen"s aid movement from roughly 1861 to 1877. She brilliantly captures a moment in U.S. history when these working relationships were possible."--Journal of Southern History "Women"s Radical Reconstruction will appeal to historians concerned with gender issues, abolition and slavery, philanthropy, and education. Faulkner draws upon rich primary sources from archives, historical societies, and rare book and manuscript collections to bolster her argument."--History of Education Quarterly "The author sheds light on the conflicted character of the freedmen"s aid movement, offering vivid glimpses of the struggles that shaped the period more broadly....