The dance of freedom : Texas African Americans during Reconstruction /
This anthology brings together the late Barry A. Crouch's most important articles on the African American experience in Texas during Reconstruction. Grouped topically, the essays explore what freedom meant to the newly emancipated, how white Texans reacted to the freed slaves, and how Freedmen&...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2007.
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Edición: | 1st ed. |
Colección: | Jack and Doris Smothers series in Texas history, life, and culture ;
no. 19. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- pt. 1. Historiography
- "Unmanacling" Texas Reconstruction : a twenty-year perspective
- pt. 2. Freedom
- Reconstructing Black families : perspectives from the Texas Freedmen's Bureau records
- Black dreams and white justice
- Seeking equality : Houston Black women during Reconstruction
- pt. 3. Reaction
- A spirit of lawlessness : white violence, Texas Blacks, 1865-1868
- Crisis in color : racial separation in Texas during Reconstruction
- "All the vile passions" : the Texas Black Code of 1866
- The fetters of justice : Black Texans and the penitentiary during Reconstruction
- pt. 4. Freedmen's Bureau agents and African American politicians
- Guardian of the freedpeople : Texas Freedmen's Bureau agents and the Black community
- Hesitant recognition : Texas Black politicians, 1865-1900
- Self-determination and local Black leaders in Texas
- A political education : George T. Ruby and the Texas Freedmen's Bureau.