A look at the agency’s attempts to deliver justice to the Texas black community following the Civil War.
Drawing on a wealth of previously unused documentation in the National Archives, this book offers new insights into the workings of the Freedmen’s Bureau and the difficulties faced by Texas Bureau officials, who served in a remote and somewhat isolated area with little support from headquarters.
“[The] episodes in Texas Reconstruction history that Mr. Crouch relates, perhaps do more than broad generalizations to explain why the Freedmen’s Bureau failed, and how we lost the peace after the Civil War.” —New York Times Book ReviewBarry A. Crouch was Professor of History at Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C. He was the co-author of Cullen Montgomery Baker, Reconstruction Desperado(1997).