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

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dc.contributor.advisorMcDaniel, Caleben_US
dc.creatorSchachter, Benen_US
dc.date.accessioned2022-05-25T22:14:12Zen_US
dc.date.available2022-05-25T22:14:12Zen_US
dc.date.issued2022-05en_US
dc.descriptionin partial fulfillment of the undergraduate honors designation for the Rice University Department of Historyen_US
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.en_US
dc.format.extent76 ppen_US
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.en_US
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.25611/FN7J-RE67en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1911/112431en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherRice Universityen_US
dc.rightsCopyright is held by author.en_US
dc.rights.uriThis item is shared under a Creative Commons License- Attribution (CC BY), https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/en_US
dc.subjectslaveryen_US
dc.subjectemancipationen_US
dc.subjectReconstructionen_US
dc.subjectWheat familyen_US
dc.subjectRiceen_US
dc.subjectBlack historyen_US
dc.titleFreedom’s Archive: Slavery, Emancipation, & Reconstruction in Fort Bend Countyen_US
dc.type.dcmiTexten_US
dc.type.genreThesisen_US
thesis.degree.departmentHistoryen_US
thesis.degree.disciplineHumanitiesen_US
thesis.degree.grantorRice Universityen_US
thesis.degree.levelUndergraduateen_US
thesis.degree.nameHonor Thesisen_US
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