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Testimony of Essie Harris, 1871.
Tags: Race relations, Racial Violence
Testimony of Essie Harris, 1871.
Tags: Race relations, Racial Violence
Testimony of Essie Harris , 1871.
Tags: Race relations, Racial Violence
Testimony of Essie Harris, 1871.
Tags: Race relations, Racial Violence
Testimony of Essie Harris, 1871.
Tags: Race relations, Racial Violence
Testimony of Essie Harris, 1871.
Tags: Race relations, Racial Violence
"Taken From the Record," October 5, 1880
GREENSBORO, Oct. 3.- If the terrible civil war, which cost this country so much of blood and of treasure, was not fought altogether in vain, if the Reconstruction acts and the amendments to the national Constitution are not entirely without force, it…
Ku Klux Klan Mask, c. 1870
Tags: postwar, Race relations, Racial Violence, Racism
"Sketches of Neighboring Slaveholders," ca. 1820s
THERE was a planter in the country, not far from us, whom I will call Mr. Litch. He was an ill-bred, uneducated man, but very wealthy. He had six hundred slaves, many of whom he did not know by sight. His extensive plantation was managed by well-paid…
Tags: Family, Race relations, Racial Violence, Slaves, Violence
"The North Carolina Troubles," August 20, 1870
Therehas been in certain quarters, noto-rious for sympathy with the late rebels and re-bellion, such a vehement denunciation of Gov-ernorHolden, of North Carolina, as a pecul-iarly malignant “satrap,” who was wagingfiendish war upon…
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North Carolinian voters chose John C. Breckinridge in presidential election, November 6, 1860
On November 6, 1860, in the presidential election, North Carolinian voters chose John C. Breckinridge (pictured), the southern Democratic nominee,…