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Too Great a Burden to Bear - The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas (Paperback)
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Too Great a Burden to Bear - The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas (Paperback)
Series: Reconstructing America
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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.
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