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Informationen zum Autor By Barry Crouch Klappentext This anthology brings together the late Barry A. Crouch's most important articles on the African American experience in Texas during Reconstruction. Grouped topically, the essays explore what freedom meant to the newly emancipated, how white Texans reacted to the freed slaves, and how Freedmen's Bureau agents and African American politicians worked to improve the lot of ordinary African American Texans. The volume also contains Crouch's seminal review of Reconstruction historiography, "Unmanacling Texas Reconstruction: A Twenty-Year Perspective." The introductory pieces by Arnoldo De Leon and Larry Madaras recapitulate Barry Crouch's scholarly career and pay tribute to his stature in the field of Reconstruction history. Zusammenfassung Twelve essays by noted Reconstruction-era historian Barry A. Crouch which explore the African American experience in Texas following emancipation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword by Arnoldo De LeónAcknowledgments by Larry MadarasIntroduction by Larry MadarasPart I. Historiography 1. "Unmanacling" Texas Reconstruction: A Twenty-Year PerspectivePostscript to Part IPart II. Freedom 2. Reconstructing Black Families: Perspectives from the Texas Freedmen's Bureau Records3. Black Dreams and White Justice4. Seeking Equality: Houston Black Women during ReconstructionPostscript to Part IIPart III. Reaction 5. A Spirit of Lawlessness: White Violence, Texas Blacks, 1865-18686. Crisis in Color: Racial Separation in Texas during Reconstruction7. "All the Vile Passions": The Texas Black Code of 18668. The Fetters of Justice: Black Texans and the Penitentiary during ReconstructionPostscript to Part IIIPart IV. Freedmen's Bureau Agents and African American Politicians 9. Guardian of the Freedpeople: Texas Freedmen's Bureau Agents and the Black Community10. Hesitant Recognition: Texas Black Politicians, 1865-190011. Self-Determination and Local Black Leaders in Texas12. A Political Education: George T. Ruby and the Texas Freedmen's BureauPostscript to Part IVBibliography of Works by Barry A. CrouchIndex...
