James Burke

James Burke appears as a bookseller in Houston in the 1866 City Directory, and also wrote a number of letters to the American Missionary Society in support of the group’s educational efforts for freedpeople in Texas. These letters are available in the Gale Slave and Anti-Slavery archive; need to return and read more carefully. He identifies Foster and Dayton as AMA teachers, describes himself as a lifelong hater of slavery and unionist, and leverages his work as a member of the American Tract Society to seek to fill orders for books from the Freedmens Bureau and AMA. He also mentions an article on education that he wrote for the Houston Daily Union.