CONTENTS

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. FOREWORD vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
5. INTRODUCTION xiii
6. PART I Historiography
7. One “UNMANACLING” TEXAS RECONSTRUCTION A Twenty-Year Perspective 3
8. POSTSCRIPT TO PART I 36
9. PART II Freedom
10. Two RECONSTRUCTING BLACK FAMILIES Perspectives from the Texas Freedmen’s Bureau Records 39
11. Three BLACK DREAMS AND WHITE JUSTICE 54
12. Four SEEKING EQUALITY Houston Black Women during Reconstruction 69
13. POSTSCRIPT TO PART II 90
14. PART III Reaction
15. Five A SPIRIT OF LAWLESSNESS White Violence, Texas Blacks, 1865 –1868 95
16. Six CRISIS IN COLOR Racial Separation in Texas during Reconstruction 118
17. Seven “ALL THE VILE PASSIONS” The Texas Black Code of 1866 134
18. Eight THE FETTERS OF JUSTICE Black Texans and the Penitentiary during Reconstruction 159
19. POSTSCRIPT TO PART III 181
20. PART IV Freedmen’s Bureau Agents and African American Politicians
21. Nine GUARDIAN OF THE FREEDPEOPLE Texas Freedmen’s Bureau Agents and the Black Community 185
22. Ten HESITANT RECOGNITION Texas Black Politicians, 1865 –1900 203
23. Eleven SELF-DETERMINATION AND LOCAL BLACK LEADERS IN TEXAS 227
24. Twelve A POLITICAL EDUCATION George T. Ruby and the Texas Freedmen’s Bureau 241
25. POSTSCRIPT TO PART IV 255
26. BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS BY BARRY A. CROUCH 257
27. INDEX 261