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Hamilton, K. M. (1999). White wealth and black repression in harrison county, texas: 1865-1868. The Journal of Negro History, 340-359. doi:10.2307/2649036This article by Hamilton is a case study in Hairston County, Texas between 1865-68 (Hamilton, 1999). The Reconstruction era happened after the civil war which gave opportunity to obstreperous southern states to enter the Union. Harrison County, Texas slavery produced a lot of the wealth in Texas. They also suffered the most during this era and the Civil War. This journal discusses how 60 percent of white households owned slaves (Hamilton, 1999). Also, how 59 percent of the residents were African American (Hamilton, 1999). Freedmen Bureau was set up in 1865 to help slaves.Henry Louis Gates,

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