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...
“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 about Yankee Stepfather. General O.O. Howard and the Freedmen
This 1874 speech in support of the Civil Rights Act was the “defining moment” in the career of Robert Brown Elliott (1842–1884), a two-term Black..... Read More about Civil Rights. Speech of Hon. Robert B. Elliott, of South Carolina, in the House of...
First edition. An authoritative treatise of the Freedmen’s Bureau’s activities in South Carolina. From the preface, “...I have raised some points about what might have..... Read More about The Freedmen’s Bureau in South Carolina 1865-1872
Inscribed by the dean of Black American history, John Hope Franklin who writes the essay “Jim Crow Goes to School: The Genesis of Legal Segregation..... Read More about The Negro in the South Since 1865. Selected Essays in American Negro History. [Signed by John...
A full rich biographical treatment of the life of Black Reconstruction leader James T. Rapier of Alabama and a “fascinating view of the upper strata..... Read More about James T. Rapier and Reconstruction. [Inscribed & Signed by John Hope Franklin and author...
Inscribed and signed by John Hope Franklin; and also by contributor Loren Schweninger. Here, ten scholars offer their interpretations of various facets of Reconstruction. Titles..... Read More about The Facts of Reconstruction. Essays in Honor of John Hope Franklin. [Inscribed by John Hope...
Author-poet Caspar Bruchhausen (1806-1891) was a homeopathist physician. The book’s more interesting poems (pp92-119) reveal his perspectives on the American Civil War and Reconstruction. The..... Read More about Rhymes of the Times and Other Chimes
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Josiah T. Walls (1842–1905) was the first African American Congressman from Florida, and the only one, until Corrine Brown’s victory in 1992. This lengthy text..... Read More about First Black Florida Congressman:] Papers in the Case of Jesse J. Finley vs. Josiah T. Walls....
Report on the murder of Union soldiers in South Carolina, a capital case touching on habeas corpus and the jurisdiction of military courts in the..... Read More about Murder of Union Soldiers [caption title of U.S. House of Representatives Select Committee Report
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
Speech of Congressman Samuel S. Cox, Democrat of Ohio on the Wade-Davis Bill of 1864 introducing a legislative plan for Reconstruction. The bill “…was less..... Read More about The Nation’s Hope in the Democracy—- Historic Lessons for Civil War. Speech of Hon. S.S. Cox,...
Biography of Josiah Walls (1842–1905), leading Black Reconstruction politician, a delegate to Florida’s state constitutional convention of 1868, state politician, and U.S. Congressman from 1871..... Read More about Josiah Walls, Florida’s Black Congressman of Reconstruction
Inscribed by the author, a professor at Morehouse College in Atlanta, to a Black bibliophile at the 68th meeting of the ASALH in Detroit. The..... Read More about In the Cage. Eyewitness Accounts of the Freed Negro in Southern Society, 1877-1929. (Signed
Focused examination of the era of Reconstruction in North Carolina on the Lower Cape Fear River. Among the benefits of the the book is the..... Read More about Ballots and Fence Rails. Reconstruction on the Lower Cape Fear
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
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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
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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
Important account of Reconstruction in Mississippi written by a participant there at the time, John R. Lynch, former U.S. Congressman, 1873–1877 and 1882–1883. “In 1913..... Read More about Facts of Reconstruction
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..... Read More about The Resurgence Of Race. Black Social Theory From Reconstruction To The Pan-African Conferences
“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
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....
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...
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...
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...
