Christopher B. Bean

Too Great a Burden to Bear (eBook, PDF)

The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In its brief seven-year existence, the FreedmenGCOs Bureau became the epicenter of the debate about Reconstruction. Historians have only recently begun to focus on the BureauGCOs personnel in Texas, the individual agents termed the GCGBPhearts of Reconstruction.GC 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 FreedpeopleGs transition to freedom. This work shows that each agent, moved by his sense of fairness and ideas of citizenship, gender, and labor, represented the agencyGs policy in his subdistrict. These men further ensured the former slavesG right to an education and right of mobility, something they never had while in bondage.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780823268771
• Artikelnr.: 45481249

Autorenporträt

Christopher B. Bean is Assistant Professor of History and Native American Studies at East Central University, Oklahoma.