Freedom’s Archive: Slavery, Emancipation, & Reconstruction in Fort Bend County

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dc.contributor.advisorMcDaniel, Caleb
dc.creatorSchachter, Ben
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-25T22:14:12Z
dc.date.available2022-05-25T22:14:12Z
dc.date.issued2022-05
dc.descriptionin partial fulfillment of the undergraduate honors designation for the Rice University Department of History
dc.description.abstractThis thesis tells the story of the Wheat family from their enslavement in Fort Bend County by Frederick Allen Rice through their experiences during emancipation, Reconstruction, and Jim Crow. It studies questions of change and continuity and grapples with the inadequacies of traditional sources to try and tell a rich, colorful story of one Black family's life. The thesis finds that while there was certainly some progress from slavery, one family member's gains might be weighed down by setbacks for another. It also argues that freedom's archive is not well-suited to answering the sort of broad, overarching questions historians of this time period often ask when searching for a definitive answer to how revolutionary Reconstruction was. This thesis also asserts the importance of attempting to reconstruct just a few people's lives and their genealogies, emphasizing enslaved people's claims on the present.
dc.format.extent76 pp
dc.identifier.citationSchachter, Ben. "Freedom’s Archive: Slavery, Emancipation, & Reconstruction in Fort Bend County." Undergraduate thesis, Rice University, 2022. https://doi.org/10.25611/FN7J-RE67.
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.25611/FN7J-RE67
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/112431
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRice University
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dc.rights.uriThis item is shared under a Creative Commons License- Attribution (CC BY), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/
dc.subjectslavery
dc.subjectemancipation
dc.subjectReconstruction
dc.subjectWheat family
dc.subjectRice
dc.subjectBlack history
dc.titleFreedom’s Archive: Slavery, Emancipation, & Reconstruction in Fort Bend County
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dc.type.genreThesis
thesis.degree.departmentHistory
thesis.degree.disciplineHumanities
thesis.degree.grantorRice University
thesis.degree.levelUndergraduate
thesis.degree.nameHonor Thesis
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