Too Great a Burden to Bear : The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas /

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In its brief seven-year existence, the Freedmen's Bureau became the epicenter of the debate about Reconstruction. Historians have only recently begun to focus on the Bureau's personnel in Texas, the individual agents termed the 'hearts of Reconstruction'. Specifically addressing...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Bean, Christopher B. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2017.
Edición:First edition.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
United States. > Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
United States. > Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands > History.
United States. > Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands > Officials and employees > Biography.
Race relations.
Freed persons.
Employees.
African Americans.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Affranchis > Texas > Histoire.
Noirs americains > Texas > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) > Texas.
Freed persons > Texas > History.
African Americans > Texas > History > 19th century.
United States.
Texas.
Texas > Relations raciales > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Texas > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Biographies.
History.
Biography
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. "A Stranger Amongst Strangers"
  • 2. "The Post of Greatest Peril"
  • 3. Conservative Phoenix
  • 4. Bureau Expansion, Bureau Courts, and the Black Code
  • 5. The Bureau's Highwater Mark
  • 6. "They must vote with the party that shed their blood . . . in giving them liberty"
  • 7. Violence, Frustration, and Yellow Fever
  • 8. General Orders No. 40 and the Freedmen's Bureau's End
  • Conclusion
  • Appendix A
  • Appendix B
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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