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
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
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
Study of South Carolina during immediate post-Civil War Reconstruction, 1865–1868, and later under its new State Constitution—a period of radical Reconstruction that ended in 1877... Read More
“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)
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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 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
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
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
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
![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
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
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)
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
