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Fremont and Victory. A Rallying Song--Tune of Marseilles Hymn

Fremont and Victory. A Rallying Song--Tune of Marseilles Hymn

Behold! the furious storm is rolling, Which border fiends, confederates, raise, The dogs of war, let loose, are howing, And lo! our infant cities blaze, And shall we calmly view the ruin, While lawless force with giant stride,Spreads desolation far…

"Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction," May 29, 1865

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Whereas the President of the United States, on the 8th day of December, A.D. eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and on the 26 day of March, A.D. eighteen hundred and sixty-four, did, with the object to suppress the existing rebellion, to induce all…

Jeffrey Brooke Allen, "The Racial Thought of White North Carolina Opponents of Slavery, 1789-1876" (1982)

Jeffrey Brooke Allen examined the viewpoints of North Carolina white opponents of slavery from Antebellum to Reconstruction. Through a variety of primanry sources, Allen concluded that many white absolitionists beleived that all Blacks were inferior…

Diary of Alice Campbell, ca. 1865

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Sherman, with his hordes of depraved and lawless men, came upon us like swarms of bees, bringing sorrow and desolation in their pathway. For days, we had been expecting them, and our loved boys in grey had been passing through in squads looking…

Letter of Judge Tourgee to Senator Abbott, May 24, 1870

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In this letter, Albion Tourgee, a civil rights activist and representative to the Constitutional Convention, wrote to Joseph Abbott (pictured), a Republican senator, about the high Klu Klux Klan activity within Alamance and Caswell counties in the…

Albion Tourgée on the religiously divine nature of slavery in A Fool's Errand, 1879

"I have a curiosity to read them. I have heard so much about them, and never saw them before. You may not be aware, madam, that they were regarded as 'seditious publications' before the war; so that one could only get to read them at considerable…

Albion Tourgée on the subserviance of African Americans and their lack of influence in A Fool's Errand, 1879

THE Fool's neighbors having read his letter to the Wise Man, as published in thegreat journal in which it appeared, were greatly incensed thereat, andimmediately convened a public meeting for the purpose of taking action inregard to the same. At this…