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ARTICLES
War Clouds
in South Carolina the White and Black Clans Gathering for
Battle Parade
of the New Rifle Clubs New York Herald, May 4,
1871, 3
Carolina
Corruption.
More Samples of the Official Robbery of the Palmetto State
New York
Herald, March 5, 1878, 7
Hargis, Peggy G. For the
Love
of Place: Paternalism and Patronage in the Georgia Lowcountry,
1865-1898,
The
Journal of Southern History, Vol. 70, No. 4 (Nov., 2004),
pp. 825-864
BOOKS
de la Cova, Antonio Rafael. Ambrosio
Gonzales: Reconstruction Retailer (2003)
Fleming, Walter L., ed. Documents
Relating
to Reconstruction (1905)
_____. Documentary
History
of Reconstruction, Vol. II (1907)
Reynolds, John S. Reconstruction
in
South Carolina, 1865-1877 (1905)
Thompson, C. Mildred. Reconstruction
in Georgia: Economic, Social, Political 1865-1872 (1915)
Constitutional
Amendments
and Major Civil Rights Acts of Congress
Ku
Klux
Klan Conspiracy 1871 Congressional Testimony Documents
Government
Documents
Freedmen's
Bureau, Subordinate Field Offices in Florida, 1866-67
Letters
Received by the Office of the Adjutant General, 1866,
Florida
Pardons
by
President Andrew Johnson for Alabama, Virginia, and Georgia,
Dec. 4,
1867
Removal
of the Hon. E. M. Stanton and Others, Nov. 26, 1867
VIDEOS
Reconstruction
(History Channel)
Civil
War Reconstruction
Aftershock:
Beyond
the Civil War
The
Presidents: Andrew Johnson to Arthur 1865-1885
TESTIMONY TAKEN BY THE JOINT SELECT COMMITTEE TO INQUIRE INTO
THE
CONDITION OF AFFAIRS IN THE LATE INSURRECTIONARY STATES: THE
KU-KLUX CONSPIRACY
Committee Report
North Carolina
South Carolina I
South Carolina II
Georgia I
Georgia II
Alabama I
Alabama II
Alabama III
Mississippi I
Mississippi II
Miscellaneous
and
Florida
Armed
Freedmen
ordered to Demopolis, Alabama, Sept. 1, 1868
Wade
Hampton:
Outrages cased by "ill-conduct and maladministration of the
State
government"
REPORT AND TESTIMONY OF THE SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE U.S.
SENATE TO
INVESTIGATE THE CAUSES
OF THE REMOVAL OF THE NEGROES FROM THE SOUTHERN STATES TO THE
NORTHERN
STATES
Senate
Report
693, Part 1, 46th Congress, 2nd Session, 1880
Senate
Report
693, Part 2, 46th Congress, 2nd Session, 1880
Senate
Report
693, Part 3, 46th Congress, 2nd Session, 1880
FREEDMAN'S BANK
Investigation
of
the Bank, Postal Savings Bank Hearings, 1909
Report
of
the House Select Committee on the Freedman's Bank, May 19,
1876
A
Startling Record: Gen. Oliver Howard, Camden Democrat
(NJ),
April 16, 1870, 2
The
Freedmen's
Savings Bank: Frederick Douglass Elected President, Evening
Post (NY), March 20, 1874, 4
President
Frederick
Douglass's Statement, Boston Daily Advertiser,
April
29, 1874, 1
Frederick
Douglass,
President of the Late Freedmen's Bank, Plain Dealer
(Cleveland), Feb. 2, 1875, 4
A
Colored Leader Speaks, Camden Democrat (Camden,
NJ), July 10,
1875, 2
Sambo's
Savings.
How Loyal Radical Thieves Managed To Steal The Earnings Of The
Freedmen, Patriot (Harrisburg-PA), May 22, 1876, 5
Thomas
Nast
cartoon, Harper's Weekly, March 29, 1879
A
Cruel Fraud: The Freedmen's Bank Swindle, Wheeling
Register
(Wheeling, WV), Feb. 17, 1880, 1
The
Freedmen's
Bank: Full Story of that Mismanaged Institution, Indianapolis
Sentinel, March 17, 1880, 7
NORTHERN TEACHERS
Charlotte L. Forten Grimké (1837-1914)
Billington, Ray Allen. A
Social Experiment: The Port Royal Journal of Charlotte L.
Forten 1862-1863.
The
Journal of Negro History, July 1950.
Charlotte
Forten,
Warminster, PA 1850 census
Charlotte
Forten,
Luzerne, PA 1860 census
Charlotte
Forten,
1870 Boston Directory
Charlotten
Forten,
1874 Washington, DC Directory
Charlotten
Forten,
1879 Washington, DC Directory
Charlotte
Forten,
Washington, DC 1880 census
Charlotte
Forten,
Washington, DC 1910 census
Laura Mathilde Towne (May 3, 1825-Feb. 22,
1901)
Laura
M.
Towne 1870 St. Helena, SC census (5 Black servants, 2
illiterate)
Laura
M.
Towne 1880 St. Helena, SC census (2 Black servants, 1
illiterate)
Elizabeth H. Botume
Botume,
Elizabeth
H., 1860 Boston census
HAWKS, JOHN M. (1826-1910)
Test Oath.
Nov. 29, 1867
The First Freedmen to
Become Soldiers
STEVENS, THADDEUS (April 4, 1792-Aug. 11, 1868)
Thaddeus
Stevens
(Wikipedia)
Thaddeus
Stevens
And The Media (Video)
Death
of
Thaddeus Stevens (NY Evening Post, Aug. 12, 1868,
2)
Death of
Thaddeus
Stevens (Richmond Whig, Aug. 14, 1868, 1)
Death
of
Thaddeus Stevens (Alexandria-Gazette, Aug. 12,
1868, 2)
Death of
Thaddeus Stevens (NY Herald Tribune, Aug. 13,
1868, 1)
THOMAS NAST CARTOONS
Harper's Weekly 1863-1879
Contracts
with
Freedmen Charleston Courier, Dec. 28, 1865
Contract
of
Allan Macfarlan and 29 freedmen and women, January 27, 1866,
Chesterfield
County, S.C.
Testimony
of
Washington Willis (colored) Nov. 17, 1871: He was invited to
join KKK
which had other Black members
The
Ku-Klux Klan, Richmond Whig, March 17, 1868, 2
The
Ku Klux Klan, Times Picayune, March 18, 1868, 1
High
Handed
Outrages by the Ku Klux Klan, New York Tribune,
March
30, 1868, 1
Negro
Ku-Klux, Savannah Morning News, March 8, 1870
Ku-Klux
in Georgia, New York Sun, July 11, 1871, 1
Raid
on a camp of the Outlaws (New York Tribune,
Sept. 12, 1871,
1)
A
Body Snatcher Convicted, Cincinnati Daily Gazette, Dec.
24 1879, 1
A
proclamation by his excellency the Governor of North
Carolina, Oct. 20,
1869
H.
E.
C. Bryant, New York Herald, to S.C. Gov. Thomas McLeod, Oct.
16, 1923,
regarding Negro migration movement (McLeod Papers,
Alphabetical Files,
Box 1, South Carolina Department of Archives and History)
N.
A.
Patterson to S.C. Gov. Thomas McLeod, Oct. 14, 1923,
regarding exodus
of the Negro to the North and importing Mexican farm labor
to S.C.
(McLeod Papers, Alphabetical Files, Box 1, South Carolina
Department of
Archives and History)
Edward
Nelson,
to S.C. Gov. Thomas McLeod, Nov. 12, 1923, asks for a parole
that
will allow him to return to S.C. (McLeod Papers,
Alphabetical Files,
Box 1, South Carolina Department of Archives and History)
RIOTS
Reconstruction
riots
CHARLESTON RIOT JUNE 28, 1866
Richard
M.
Branford, Co. A, S.C. Siege Train, 1863
Richard
M.
Branford death record, June 28, 1866
Death
of
a Prisoner Charged with Homicide Charleston Courier,
April
18, 1867, 2
Almost
Hung, N.Y. Evening Post, June 18, 1867, 3
Executive
pardon
of John Jenkins, convicted of killing Richard M. Branford,
Feb.
12, 1868
Justice
in
South Carolina, N.Y. Herald Tribune, Feb. 19,
1868, 4
COLFAX MASSACRE
William
S.
Calhoun, 1870 census
Grant Parish:
The
Massacre a Most Terrible One (New York Times, April
18, 1873,
1)
Peace Being
Restored
in the Parishes (New York Times, April 21, 1873, 1)
One of the
Victims
of the Colfax Massacre (New York Times, April 26,
1873, 9)
The Colfax, La.
Massacre: Flight of the Postmaster (New York Times,
April 29,
1873, 1)
The Day Freedom
Died: The Colfax Massacre, the Supreme Court, and the Betrayal
of Reconstruction
(The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Summer 2008)
