Too Great a Burden to Bear: The Struggle and Failure of the Freedmen's Bureau in Texas

This Reconstruction Era historical study of the Freedman's Bureau in Texas offers a personal view of the lives, struggles and misconceptions of its agents.

Formed at the close of the Civil War to provide assistance to formerly enslaved people, the Freedmen's Bureau became the epicenter of the debate about Reconstruction. Though its agents in Texas were vitally important, historians have only recently begun to focus on their operations. Specifically addressing the historiographical debates c...