gorman2012

@InCollection{ gorman2012,
	author = {John Gorman},
	title = {Reconstruction Violence in the Lower {B}razos {R}iver Valley},
	pages = {387--420},
	crossref = {howell2012},
	year = 2012,
}

Gorman provides valuable tabulations of violent incidents reported by the Freedmen’s Bureau which show the one-sided nature of the violence (i.e., predominantly white-on-black violence). He also mentions briefly that “political violence was often directed at blacks who were involved in local politics” (388).

Focusing on six counties—Brazos, Grimes, Washington, Austin, Fort Bend and Brazoria—Gorman concludes that this “Lower Brazos River Valley [region] had to contend with an even greater degree of violence” than in other parts of the state, a fact Gorman correlates to the “percentage of African Americans within the population” (p. 405). Like bean2012, Gorman argues that counties with large black majorities or very small black minorities experienced less violence than those “in which the white population was either in the majority or approximately equal to the black population” (p. 405).

Mentions the importance of the Houston and Texas Central Railroad in the development of Millican and Bryan, along with Brazos River valley generally.