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..... Read More
Reconstruction
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![The Facts of Reconstruction. Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin. [Inscribed Copy]. Alfred A. Moss Eric Anderson, Jr.](/pictures/thumb/3728231_1.jpg?v=1545242465)
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... Read More
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..... Read More
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... Read More
![The Chisolm Massacre. [First Edition]. James M. Wells, 1838–?, James Monroe Wells.](/pictures/thumb/3728133_1.jpg?v=1546963425)
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... Read More
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..... Read More
![Those American R’s. Rule, Ruin, Restoration. [Inscribed Copy]. By One Who Has Been R'd, C. Oscar Beasley.](/pictures/thumb/3727966_1.jpg?v=1543259256)
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... Read More
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..... Read More
The Negro’s Image in the South: The Anatomy of White Supremacy.
A study of the South’s defense of slavery and white superiority. The author also shows how violence and lack of access to education was used..... Read More
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..... Read More
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..... Read More
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... Read More
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)... Read More
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..... Read More
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... Read More
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... Read More
[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,”..... 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)
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..... Read More
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... Read More
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... 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)
[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].
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
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