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Page two of Essie Harris Testimony via the Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States

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James E. Boyd’s testimony during the trial was detrimental to the respondent’s defense. Boyd himself was a lawyer from Alamance County and former member of the Ku Klux Klan. His testimony offers detailed information about the activities of the…

Wyatt Outlaw was a prominent African-American councilman in Alamance Country in the latter part of the 1860s. The testimony of his mother, Jemima Phillips, reveals a firsthand account of the Klan’s capture of Outlaw and his subsequent hanging.…

Jesse Gant was a political figure for forty years in both the counties of Alamance and Orange, North Carolina. The Board of Managers attempted to examine many respectable and well known men from the counties in question during the trial, and Mr. Gant…

Josiah Turner Jr. was a high profile witness called upon by the Board of Managers and the prosecution during Gov. Holden’s impeachment. Born and raised in the town of Hillsboro in Orange County, he was a lawyer and editor that had been living in…

William Puryear was an African-American taken from his home in the middle of the night by the Ku Klux Klan and murdered, being drowned in a lake with a rock tied to his waist. Matilda Puryear, William’s wife, testifies that she was with her husband…

William J. Murray was called upon by the Board of Managers in the prosecution of Gov. Holden regarding any matters of insurrection in Alamance County. William J. Murray was brother of Albert Murray, the sheriff and William himself served as deputy…