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

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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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016]
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Year of Publication:2016
Language:English
Series:Reconstructing America
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t Contents --   |t Introduction --   |t 1. "A Stranger Amongst Strangers" --   |t 2. "The Post of Greatest Peril" --   |t 3. Conservative Phoenix --   |t 4. Bureau Expansion, Bureau Courts, and the Black Code --   |t 5. The Bureau's Highwater Mark --   |t 6. "They must vote with the party that shed their blood . . . in giving them liberty" --   |t 7. Violence, Frustration, and Yellow Fever --   |t 8. General Orders No. 40 and the Freedmen's Bureau's End --   |t Conclusion --   |t Appendix A --   |t Appendix B --   |t Notes --   |t Bibliography --   |t Index 
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520 |a 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 the historiographical debates concerning the character of the Bureau and its sub-assistant commissioners (SACs), Too Great a Burden to Bear sheds new light on the work and reputation of these agents.Focusing on the agents on a personal level, author Christopher B. Bean reveals the type of man Bureau officials believed qualified to oversee the Freedpeople's transition to freedom. This work shows that each agent, moved by his sense of fairness and ideas of citizenship, gender, and labor, represented the agency's policy in his subdistrict. These men further ensured the former slaves' right to an education and right of mobility, something they never had while in bondage. 
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650 0 |a Freed persons  |z Texas  |x History. 
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653 |a freedpeople. 
653 |a labor. 
653 |a nineteenth-century military. 
653 |a racism and violence. 
653 |a subassistant commissioners. 
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