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- Collection: Postwar North Carolina
"Trent River Settlement," June 9, 1866
GENERAL STEEDMAN’S TOUR. Our artist, Mr. Davis, gives the following description of illustrations on page 361: “The Inspection Tour of Generals Steedman and Fullerton has certainly had one good result, the removal from authority of a…
"Appreciation of Art in North Carolina," Harper's Weekly, October 31, 1868
First Native: “Who's 'im, Bill?” Second Native: “D—d Carpet-Bagger!” First Native: “What kind of a Yankee trick is that he's up to?” Second Native: “Be dad-drat if I know. Shall I split his…
Tags: Humor, sectionalism
"The North Carolina Bandits," Harper's Weekly, March 30, 1872
THE NORTH CAROLINA BANDITS. We present on page 249 several sketches and portraits illustrating the career of the band of outlaws in Robeson County, North Carolina, whose crimes, escapes, and encounters have filled the measure of wonder and…
"The Freedmen's Schools," Harper's Weekly, October 3, 1868
THE FREEDMEN'S SCHOOLS. When the North gave freedom to the slaves of the South it saw the necessity of giving them also the education which was necessary to their proper appreciation and employment of their liberty. The people of the North saw, too,…
Tags: Education, Freedpeople
"The Ku-Klux," April 1, 1871
The Ku-Klux.
The Ku-Klux question has become very serious. Before the war a citizen of the United States who believed in the Declaration of Independence, and said so, was outlawed, harried, and liable to be murdered in half the country. It was…
Tags: Newspapers, W.W. Holden
"The Lesson of the Ku-Klux," May 27, 1871
The Lesson of the Ku-Klux
Those who persistently deny the truth of the Ku-Klux stories, or ridicule them as mere tales of rawhead and bloody-bones, should remember that, whatever the explanation may be, the testimony is conclusive. And the…
Tags: Ku Klux Klan, Newspapers
"The People and the Ku-Klux," May 20, 1871
The People and the Ku-Klux
The President's proclamation under the Ku-Klux law is a simple, earnest appeal to the people of the disturbed section to keep the peace and secure the rights of all citizens through the agency of local laws. It is the…
"Making Haste Slowly," June 24, 1865
The President's reply to the Committee from North Carolina, begging him to recognize that State as fully restored to the Union, and to ask from Congress a repeal of the test-oath, confirms what we said last week of his views in regard to the…
Tags: Government, Governor, North Carolina
"Reorganization of States," June 17, 1865
That the loyal freemen of a rebellious State who have fought bravely for the Government should be disfranchised, when the victory is won, by those in the same State who have fought against it, and who yield because they are conquered, not because…
Tags: Government, North Carolina
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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…