Author: Wisner, Elizabeth
Title: Social Welfare in the South from Colonial Times to World War I
Description: Baton Rouge [LA], Louisiana State University, [1970]. orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 22x14cm, vii,154 pp.. A bump to bottom page-edge. Good. ¶ Contents: Early Measures for the Relief of the Poor; The Colonial Period; Relief in the Territories & States; Local Relief Practices; Early Care of the Mentally Ill; The Freedman's Bureau; New Orleans: A Metropolitan Record; Postwar Reforms; The Social Welfare Conference.

Keywords: American Social History, Southern South, United States, Poverty, Welfare, Historical, Sociology, ,