 | Too Great a Burden to Bear: The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen''s Bureau in Texas: The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen''s Bureau in Texas Subjects: African Americans -- Texas -- History -- 19th century; Freedmen -- Texas -- History; Reconstruction (U.S. history 1865–1877) -- Texas; United States. Bureau of Refugees Freedmen and Abandoned Lands -- Officials and employees -- Biography; United States; 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. Bean Christopher B. : Christopher B. Bean is Assistant Professor of History and Native American Studies at East Central University, Oklahoma.Christopher B. Bean is Assistant Professor of History and Native American Studies at East Central University, Oklahoma. |
