| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.4

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Book Review

Women's Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen's Aid Movement. By Carol Faulkner. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 200 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8122-3744-7.)
By the 1860s, the proponents and opponents of slavery had long elaborated their cases, but neither was clear about the likely global consequences of abolition. Would the freedmen take part in the labor force in a manner acceptable to whites, increasing their output and standard of life? Or would they put a premium on leisure that had once been unthinkable? Would they seek geographical mobility or stay with familiar employers and neighborhoods? What would be the influence on race relations? Because of these and a number of other unanswered questions, the American antislavery movement—like its British counterpart—continued to operate after abolition.	1
Carol Faulkner's succinct yet impressively comprehensive study of women's role in Radical Reconstruction gives a pioneering account of the work for and by freedmen, putting it over in the context of the prewar and postwar periods. That work was not straightforward, because the issues confronting reformers were as complex as they and American politics had ever been and ever would be.	. . .

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