Monograph on the role of African Americans in the Reconstruction-era of South Carolina, by a noted African American historian and academic. In 1922 Taylor [Alrutheus..... Read More about The Negro in South Carolina During the Reconstruction
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This rare, anonymous broadside is an attack in 1876 upon Governor Samuel J. Tilden, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, by excerpting from Southern newspapers from..... Read More about Paying the Southern War Claims [caption title
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 about 1873 Bond Signed by Georgia Reconstruction Governor James M. Smith for Nathan C. Barnett, Georgia...
Important Congressional joint committee journal on Reconstruction from 1865–1867, heretofore unpublished until the manuscript was acquired by Columbia University. Includes the Committee of Fifteen’s complete..... Read More about The Journal of the Joint Committee of Fifteen on Reconstruction, 39th Congress, 1865-1867
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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..... Read More about Those American R’s. Rule, Ruin, Restoration. [Inscribed Copy
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..... Read More about The Black Man of the South, and the Rebels; or, the Characteristics of the Former, and the Recent...
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 about Statement of Differences arising on settlement of the accounts of Joseph Fulton Boyd Brig. Genl....
Printed in double columns, an important documentary history of Reconstruction, 1865–1870, prepared by Edward McPherson (1830–1895), two-term Civil War Congressman from Pennsylvania, some time Clerk..... Read More about The Political History of the United States of America during the Period of...
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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..... Read More about The Facts of Reconstruction. Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin. [Inscribed Copy
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Study of white supremacist South Carolina politician and later Democratic governor and U.S. Senator, Benjamin Tillman (1847–1918), and the popular movement he championed. This copy..... Read More about The Tillman Movement in South Carolina. [Inscribed Copy
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..... Read More about President Lincoln’s Attitude toward Slavery and Emancipation. With a Review of Events Before...
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 about Hamburgh Riots. Speech of Hon. W.A. Wallace of Pennsylvania, in the Senate of the United States,...
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“[A] sympathetic account of freed slaves during the period of Reconstruction that followed the Civil War.” (ANB) Inscribed by the author. First published in 1944..... Read More about Freedom Road. [Inscribed by the Author; W.E.B. Du Bois Foreword
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 about Public Sale! ... There will be sold in the City of Jackson, Miss. ...May 16, 1874, the following...
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 about The Prostrate State. South Carolina Under Negro Government
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..... Read More about Reconstruction in Mississippi
Alternate perspective of South Carolina during the era of Reconstruction. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, (1965, 1967). First Edition, Second Printing. ix..... Read More about After Slavery. The Negro in South Carolina During Reconstruction, 1861-1877
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..... Read More about Facts of Reconstruction
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 about Reminiscences of an Active Life: The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch
“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..... Read More about The Negro in Texas, 1874-1900
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 about 1868 Self-Recommendation to Georgia Governor Rufus B. Bullock regarding appointment as 19th...
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 about Chancery Sales! In pursuance of Decrees rendered by the Chancery Court for Robertson County, at...
Anthology of articles examining the current bibliography and historiography of various topics in Black history: “Colonial Africa”; “The Impact of the Slave Trade on Africa”;..... Read More about Black History
Biography of Radical Republican journalist and diplomat James Shepherd Pike (1811–1882) of Maine. Pike was the author of The Prostrate State: South Carolina under Negro..... Read More about James Shepherd Pike. Republicanism and the American Negro, 1850-1882. [inscribed and signed by...
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 about A Centennial Fourth of July Democratic Celebration. The Massacre of Six Colored Citizens of the...
