Description: Too Great a Burden to Bear : The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas, Paperback by Bean, Christopher B., ISBN 0823271765, ISBN-13 9780823271764, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "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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Book Title: Too Great a Burden to Bear : the Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas
Number of Pages: 320 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Fordham University Press
Item Height: 0.7 in
Topic: United States / 19th Century, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Publication Year: 2016
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, History
Item Weight: 15.5 Oz
Author: Christopher B. Bean
Item Length: 8.9 in
Item Width: 6.6 in
Book Series: Reconstructing America Ser.
Format: Trade Paperback
