The Dance of Freedom : : Texas African Americans during Reconstruction / / Barry A. Crouch; ed. by Larry Madaras.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Crouch, Barry A.,
• MitwirkendeR: Crouch, Barry A.,; Madaras, Larry,; Schultz, L. J.,
• TeilnehmendeR: De León, Arnoldo.
• HerausgeberIn: Madaras, Larry,
• Place / Publishing House: Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (286 p.)

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's Bureau agents and African American politicians worked to improve the lot of ordinary African American Texans. The volume also contains Crouch's seminal review of Reconstruction historiography, "Unmanacling Texas Reconstruction: A Twenty-Year Perspective." The introductory pieces by Arnoldo De Leon and Larry Madaras recapitulate Barry Crouch's scholarly career and pay tribute to his stature in the field of Reconstruction history.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I Historiography -- One “UNMANACLING” TEXAS RECONSTRUCTION A Twenty-Year Perspective -- POSTSCRIPT TO PART I -- PART II Freedom -- Two RECONSTRUCTING BLACK FAMILIES Perspectives from the Texas Freedmen’s Bureau Records -- Three BLACK DREAMS AND WHITE JUSTICE -- Four SEEKING EQUALITY Houston Black Women during Reconstruction -- POSTSCRIPT TO PART II -- PART III Reaction -- Five A SPIRIT OF LAWLESSNESS White Violence, Texas Blacks, 1865 –1868 -- Six CRISIS IN COLOR Racial Separation in Texas during Reconstruction -- Seven “ALL THE VILE PASSIONS” The Texas Black Code of 1866 -- Eight THE FETTERS OF JUSTICE Black Texans and the Penitentiary during Reconstruction -- POSTSCRIPT TO PART III -- PART IV Freedmen’s Bureau Agents and African American Politicians -- Nine GUARDIAN OF THE FREEDPEOPLE Texas Freedmen’s Bureau Agents and the Black Community -- Ten HESITANT RECOGNITION Texas Black Politicians, 1865 –1900 -- Eleven SELF-DETERMINATION AND LOCAL BLACK LEADERS IN TEXAS -- Twelve A POLITICAL EDUCATION George T. Ruby and the Texas Freedmen’s Bureau -- POSTSCRIPT TO PART IV -- BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS BY BARRY A. CROUCH -- INDEX