Too great a burden to bear : the struggle and failure of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas, Christopher B. Bean

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Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-297) and index

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Contents: "A stranger amongst strangers" : who were the subassistant commissioners? -- "The post of greatest peril" : the E.M. Gregory era, September 1865-April 1866 -- Conservative phoenix : the J.B. Kiddoo era, May 1866-summer 1866 -- Bureau expansion, bureau courts, and the black code : the J.B. Kiddoo era, summer 1866-November 1866 -- The bureau's highwater mark : the J.B. Kiddoo era, November 1866-January 1867 -- "They must vote with the party that shed their blood ... in giving them liberty" : bureau agents, politics, and the bureau's new order : the Charles Griffin era, January 1867-summer 1867 -- Violence, frustration, and yellow fever : the Charles Griffin era, summer-fall 1867 -- General Orders No. 40 and the Freedmen's Bureau's end : the J.J. Reynolds era, September 1867-December 1868 -- Conclusion : the subassistant commissioners in Texas

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