Too Great a Burden to Bear by Christopher B Bean

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Too Great a Burden to Bear by Christopher B Bean

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Teil der Reconstructing America-Serie

Zusammenfassung

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.

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Too Great a Burden to Bear by Christopher B Bean

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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"Rooted in bureau, census, and military records, Bean's research is nothing short of exhaustive..this is a solid study-accessibly written and deftly argued." -- -Dr. Brlan Matthew Jordan Civil War News "Christopher Bean's Too Great a Burden to Bear makes a significant contribution to Reconstruction studies. Deftly combining storytelling with systematic quantitative analyses of the evidence, Bean offers new information, not just on the agents themselves, but also on the largest issues in Reconstruction historiography." -- -J. William Harris
Christopher B. Bean is Assistant Professor of History and Native American Studies at East Central University, Oklahoma.
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ISBN 13 9780823271764
ISBN 10 0823271765
Titel Too Great a Burden to Bear
Autor Christopher B Bean
Serie Reconstructing America
Buchzustand Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart Paperback
Verlag Fordham University Press
Erscheinungsjahr 2016-07-01
Seitenanzahl 320
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