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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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016 |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2016] ©2016 |
Year of Publication: | 2016 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Reconstructing America
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (320 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- 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