Southern Reconstruction

Click on the pictures
 
 

	The traveler.

"The First Vote." The artisan with his tools, an       urbanite, and a soldier.	Electioneering at the South. (Harper's Weekly, July 25, 1868)

Contracts with Freedmen Charleston Courier, Dec. 28, 1865
Contract of Allan Macfarlan and 29 freedmen and women, January 27, 1866, Chesterfield County, S.C.
Negro Ku-Klux, Savannah Morning News, March 8, 1870
A North Carolina Tragedy, Charleston News & Courier, Nov. 11, 1883
Lynched By Negroes, Florida Times-Union, July 2, 1892

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)