Reconstruction in Mississippi.
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.....
Reconstruction
Facts of Reconstruction.
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.....
The Resurgence Of Race. Black Social Theory From Reconstruction To The Pan-African Conferences.
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...
The Negro in Texas, 1874-1900.
“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.....
Documentary History of Reconstruction. Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational & Industrial, 1865 to the Present Time. With facsimiles. [two volumes]
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.....
The Bummer Boy, A “Spoony” Biography. By “That Brick.”
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.....
The Civil War and Reconstruction.
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.....
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The Facts of Reconstruction. Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin. [Inscribed Copy]
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...
The Black Man of the South, and the Rebels; or, the Characteristics of the Former, and the Recent Outrages of the Latter.
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.....
President Lincoln’s Attitude toward Slavery and Emancipation. With a Review of Events Before and Since the Civil War.
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...
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The Chisolm Massacre. [First Edition]
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...
Yankee Stepfather. General O.O. Howard and the Freedmen.
“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.....
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Those American R’s. Rule, Ruin, Restoration. [Inscribed Copy]
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...
Teach the Freeman: The Correspondence of Rutherford B. Hayes and the Slater Fund for Negro Education, Volume I: 1881-1887, Volume II: 1888-1893.
“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.....
The Slave Trade. Slavery and Color.
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.....
Hamburgh Riots. Speech of Hon. W.A. Wallace of Pennsylvania, in the Senate of the United States, Wednesday, August 9, 1876.
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.....
The Hamburgh Riot Explained. Speech of Hon. Wm. W. Eaton of Connecticut, Delivered in the Senate of the United States, August 7, 1876.
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...
A Centennial Fourth of July Democratic Celebration. The Massacre of Six Colored Citizens of the United States at Hamburgh, S. C., July 4, 1876. Debate on the Hamburgh Massacre, In the U. S. House of Representatives, July 15th and 18th, 1876.
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)...
The Prostrate State. South Carolina Under Negro Government.
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 Prostrate State. South Carolina Under Negro Government.
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...
Reminiscences of an Active Life: The Autobiography of John Roy Lynch.
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...
[Statement of Differences arising on settlement of the accounts of Joseph Fulton Boyd Brig. Genl. A.Q.M. for disbursements in the Quartermaster’s Department ... from April 1865 to March 1866 and… January 1868].
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,”.....
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].
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.....
Chancery Sales! In pursuance of Decrees rendered by the Chancery Court for Robertson County, at its May Term, 1869… [First lines in broadside]
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...
1873 Bond Signed by Georgia Reconstruction Governor James M. Smith for Nathan C. Barnett, Georgia Secretary of State].
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...