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

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Reconstructing AmericaPublisher: New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780823268757
  • 9780823268771
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.896073076409034 23
LOC classification:
  • E185.93.T4 B43 2017
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
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
Summary: 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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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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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)