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...
Presentation copy of this curious Reconstruction novel. The story appears to be set in fictional Georgia or North Carolina, near an early Moravian settlement. The...
Stearns was a Massachusetts abolitionist who spent six years in “Bleeding Kansas.” After the war he became a teacher, missionary, and plantation owner in Columbia.....
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,”.....
Brief inscription with autograph of John Hope Franklin. Here, ten scholars offer their interpretations of various facets of Reconstruction. Baton Rouge: LSU Press, (1991). First...
Scarce to commerce. Extreme, biting humor at the expense of presidential aspirant General Benjamin F. Butler (1818–1893), known as the “Beast” or “Beast Butler” whose.....
Assessment of Abraham Lincoln’s mind on the questions of slavery and the emancipation of 3.5 million enslaved African Americans, published just over 50 years after...
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.....
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.....
Classic study and important re-interpretation of the American Civil War and Reconstruction eras, by a noted academic and biographer of Abraham Lincoln. “Rejecting the older.....
In 1877, several years after the end of Reconstruction in Mississippi, white citizens there went on a murderous rampage. They burned out the homes of...
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...
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.....
The effects of the Civil War on Mississippi, viz., “The primary purpose of this work is to give a detailed study of reconstruction in Mississippi.....
Important account of Reconstruction in Mississippi written by an African American participant there at the time, John R. Lynch, former U.S. Congressman, 1873–1877 and 1882–1883.....
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...
“This study concentrates on the gradual decline of the Negro’s status in the post-Reconstruction era. The author describes blacks’ fight for equity in the political.....
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...
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...
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)...
“Hundreds of letters, mainly between Hayes and Atticus Haygood of Georgia, regarding one of the most important educational efforts during the 19th century.” —Jenkins. The.....
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.....
Comprehensive history of the post-American Civil War Reconstruction era, from contemporary sources, by long-time Vanderbilt professor of history, Walter Lynwood Fleming (1874–1932). Fleming’s controversial approach.....
“This biographical study of O.O. Howard [Maj. General Oliver Otis Howard (1830–1909)] provides a new understanding of the historical relationship between black Americans and the.....
A review of African-American intellectual thought on social reform after the end of the Civil War. Leaders such as Booker T. Washington, Paul Laurence Dunbar...
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