TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bean,Christopher B.
TI  - Too Great a Burden to Bear: The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas 
T2  - Reconstructing America
SN  - 9780823268757
AV  - E185.93.T4 B43 2017
U1  - 305.896073076409034 23
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Fordham University Press, 
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Texas
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Freed persons
KW  - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
KW  - HISTORY / United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Abandoned Lands
KW  - Freedmen
KW  - Reconstruction
KW  - United States Bureau of Refugees
KW  - apprenticeship
KW  - domesticity and gender
KW  - freedpeople
KW  - labor
KW  - nineteenth-century military
KW  - racism and violence
KW  - subassistant commissioners
N1  - 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; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823268771
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823268771
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823268771/original
ER  -