![1873 Bond Signed by Georgia Reconstruction Governor James M. Smith for Nathan C. Barnett, Georgia Secretary of State]. Nathan C.; c.1801–1890 Barnett.](/images/noimage-req.png)
Ten thousand dollar bond signed on January 13, 1873 by Georgia Secretary of State, Nathan Crawford Barnett binding himself to the Reconstruction Governor of Georgia... Read More
True copy of a U.S. Treasury Auditor’s report concerning Quartermaster Corps expenses in the Department of North Carolina. The report, called a “Statement of Differences,”... Read More
Small archive of autograph letters and notes etc. signed by George S. Boutwell (1818–1905), abolitionist sympathizer, Massachusetts politician, and Congressional champion of African-American voting rights... Read More
This speech by William Andrew Wallace (1827–1896), U.S. Senator, is given a month later in the aftermath of the Hamburg Massacre or Hamburg Riot. On... Read More
![Public Sale! ... There will be sold in the City of Jackson, Miss. ...May 16, 1874, the following articles of Condemned Quartermaster’s Stores… [opening line of broadside]. Lieutenant 16th Infantry I. O. Shelby.](/pictures/thumb/3726336_1.jpg?v=1534362355)
1874 advertising broadside for a United States Army quartermaster’s sale in Reconstruction-era Mississippi, apparently unrecorded. The sale of camp stores and garrison equipage was held... Read More
A reprint of the 1872 work by the same name. This edition notable for an over twenty-page Introduction by the noted American scholar and historian... Read More
The Palmetto State in the years after the American Civil War, under the control of the powerful Radical Republicans. Historian Henry Steele Commager described Pike’s... Read More
Published for the first time, the autobiography of this remarkable man born into slavery on a Louisiana plantation. Lynch rose to become Speaker of the... Read More
![[1868 Self-Recommendation to Georgia Governor Rufus B. Bullock regarding appointment as 19th Senatorial District Court Judge from William H. McWhorter. With the Autograph Endorsement of Nine Individuals]. William H. McWhorter, et. al.](/pictures/thumb/145300_1.jpg?v=1534362276)
Georgia Governor Bullock had only been in office four days when he received this request for a judicial appointment. The first page is a brief... Read More
Announcement for town lots and residences near Springfield, Tennessee. According to this American broadside, one day after Independence Day, on July 5th, 1869, the auctions... Read More
South Carolina Representative Albert Smalls (1839–1915) faced brutal opposition during the election year of 1876. On July 4th, in the all-black community of Hamburgh (Hamburg)... Read More
Theodore Dehon Jervey, South Carolina attorney, judge, historian, author, journalist, conservative, here offers a radical solution to “The Negro Problem” —encourage the African-American population of... Read More
![The Golden Age. Campaign Tracts. The Philadelphia Failure, A Review of Grant’s Renomination. [cover title]. Theodore Tilton, Horace Greeley, 1811–1872.](/pictures/thumb/3726563_1.jpg?v=1534362413)
Scarce throwaway polemical campaign literature from the 1872 presidential election with the intent to discredit the Republican nominee and sitting-president, Ulysses S. Grant, and promote... Read More
On July 4th, in the all-black community of Hamburgh (Hamburg) South Carolina, all-black members of a local militia were harassed by angry planters trying to... Read More
