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- Collection: Postwar North Carolina
"A Notorious Desperado Killed in North Carolina - A Company of Soldiers After His Confederates - A Defaulting Book-keeper at Chicago," New York Times, December 17, 1870
JACK MCLAUGHLIN, one of a gang of notorious outlaws of Robeson County, and for whose capture large rewards have been offered by the Governor of the State, and the authorities of Robeson County, and killed yesterday, near Vigil, by Henry Biggs.…
"Jim Young, the Negro Politician, at head of the Committee on Education at the Blind Institution for White Children at Raleigh" Raleigh News and Observer, August 1898
"The Supplementary Bill," March 28, 1867
I have considered the bill entitled “An act supplementary to an act entitled ‘An act to provide for the more efficient government of the rebel states passed March 2, 1867, and to facilitate restoration,’†and now return it to the House of…
Tags: congress, johnson, reconstruction, State Government
"The Impeachment Investigation," March 21, 1867
In less than a year it has passed from the simple requirements of the Constitutional amendment to negro suffrage, obliteration of State governments and supremacy of martial law. The Same rate of progress would bring it to the confiscation point…
"Whale Them With Sticks," Raleigh News and Observer, June 27, 1900
"Whom the Gods would destroy they first make mad." From the incendiary utterance of Butler before the Populist State committee and the threat of assassination voiced by Blackburn at Newton, down to the attempt by Lt. Gov. Reynolds, to scare…
Tags: Race relations, State Politics, Suffrage
Voter Registration Card from Alamance County, 1902
I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the United States and of the State of North Carolina: I am 53 years of age: I was on the first day of January, A. D. 1867, or prior to that date, entitled to vote under the Constitution and laws…
Tags: State Government
Amnesty Petition of R. L. Abernathy, July 13, 1865
Burke Co., N.C.,
July 13th, 1865
To His Excellency
Andrew Johnson
…
Tags: Amnesty, National Government, postwar
Albion Tourgée on northern perception of freedmen not utilizing rights in An Appeal to Caesar, 1884
The other class who fail to estimate the negro correctly is composed of those peculiarly positive, undoubting Northern men who made up their minds, years ago, that all the negro needed to make him the equal, or a little more, than the equal, of the…
Albion Tourgée on slavery, not race, being the point of attack for northern sympathizers in An Appeal to Caesar, 1884
“The slave was a man forcibly deprived of a natural and inherent right, the right of self-control, of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." Not from any desert on his part, not because of any infraction of the laws of society, but…
Albion Tourgée on African American enfranchisement as a means to degrade the South in An Appeal to Caesar, 1884
To the Southern white man, anything that looked toward the elevation of the negro beyond the mere fact of his liberty, — which as a rule he was willing to concede, — any other civil or political right which it was proposed to confer upon…
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David Blight, Race and Reunion (2001)
In his award-winning book, Race and Reunion, David Blight, a historian at Yale University, examines how Americans remembered the Civil War from the…