Too Great a Burden to Bear The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas |
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| Author:
| Bean, Christopher B. |
| Series title: | Reconstructing America Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8232-6875-7 |
| Publication Date: | Jul 2016 |
| Publisher: | Fordham University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | USD $150.00 |
Book Description:
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This work focuses on Bureau agents at a more personal level. The answers illuminate who officials believed qualified-or not-to oversee the freedpeople's transition to freedom. Officials in Texas desired those able to meet emancipation's challenges. That meant northern-born, mature, white men from the middle and upper-middle class, and generally with military experience.
This work focuses on Bureau agents at a more personal level. The answers illuminate who officials believed qualified-or not-to oversee the freedpeople's transition to freedom. Officials in Texas desired those able to meet emancipation's challenges. That meant northern-born, mature, white men from the middle and upper-middle class, and generally with military experience.