The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Texans (Paperback, New Ed)

"[The] episodes in Texas Reconstruction history that Mr. Crouch relates, perhaps do more than broad generalizations to explain why the Freedmen's Bureau failed, and how we lost the peace after the Civil War." -- New York Times Book Review

"Crouch skillfully presents the Freedmen's Bureau as one of the most unique, misunderstood, and maligned ad hoc reform agencies ever devised by a democratic government in the name of social and political freedom and equality." -- East Texas Historical Journal

." . . breaks new ground in Reconstruction history. [Crouch's] study is among the first on the bureau in Texas and the first to focus on the subdistrict agent, the subassistant commissioner." -- Journal of Southern History

Drawing on a wealth of previously unused documentation in the National Archives, this book offers new insights into the workings of the Freedmen's Bureau and the difficulties faced by Texas Bureau officials, who served in a remote and somewhat isolated area with little support from headquarters.

General

Imprint:	University Of Texas Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	April 1999
First published:	1999
Authors:	Barry A. Crouch
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	216
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-0-292-71219-5
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > General Books > History > General
LSN:	0-292-71219-7
Barcode:	9780292712195

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