Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational & Industrial, 1865 to the Present Time, Volumen2

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A.H. Clark Company, 1907
 

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Introduction The Editor
33
The new ruling class and their administration
39
Frauds taxation and expenditure
59
1 The refreshment room 2 The State must take care of its statesmen 3 Supplies for South Carolina
61
4 Some legislative expenses
65
5 Public printing in South Carolina
68
6 The finances of Arkansas
69
7 Taxation in North Carolina
70
8 Taxation in Mississippi 9 County finances
71
The Reconstruction militia
73
3 Negro militia in Arkansas
76
4 An experience with Governor Holdens militia
78
5 The militia in South Carolina elections
79
Political methods of Reconstruction
81
3 Bacon and hams in politics
83
4 Voting early and often
85
5 A Little Joker 6 The ghost of the Confederacy
86
7 Why Adam Kirk was a Democrat 8 Fear of spells and charms
87
9 Negro Democrats in South Carolina
88
10 Political intimidation
89
11 Why the Whigs became Democrats
91
State and national politics
93
2 Division among the Arkansas Republicans
94
3 Reform Republicans in Arkansas
96
4 Anything to defeat Grant 5 Liberal Republican demands
97
6 Republican platform 1872
98
8 Democratic views on the Southern Question 1876
99
9 The Republican standpoint in 1876
100
Federal control in state affairs
102
2 Second Enforcement
112
3 Ku Klux
123
4 Wirit of habeas corpus suspended in South Carolina
128
5 The election of a Senator
131
6 The attorney general and the Alabama legislature
133
7 Use of troops and deputy marshals
135
8 Federal interference under the Enforcement Laws
138
Louisiana and Arkansas
141
2 AntiWarmoth handbill 3 The usurpation of 1872
142
8 Appeal to the President
147
9 The revolution fails
151
10 Conditions after the revolution
152
11 An army officers report on conditions in Louisiana
153
12 Legislature broken up by troops
156
13 Sheridans Banditti telegram 14 The Wheeler adjustment
157
15 Two governors in Arkansas
160
16 The riot in Arkansas 17 Presidents proclamation on Arkansas
161
EDUCATIONAL PROBLEMS OF RECONSTRUCTION
161
Introduction The Editor
165
References
169
Northern views of the educational problems of Reconstruction
171
2 The negros capacity for education
174
3 Northern songs in Southern schools
175
Attitude of the Southern whites toward negro education
176
2 Shall the negro be educated?
177
3 Why the negroes should be educated
178
4 The Southern churches and negro education
180
5 Southern whites should teach negroes
181
Northern aid to negro education
182
3 A Northern teacher and a Southern editor
183
4 A foreigners observations
184
5 Value of the missionary work
186
Mixed schools
187
2 Constitutional provisions for mixed schools
189
3 The deaf dumb and blind
190
4 The reconstruction of South Carolina University
191
5 Results of the mixed school policy
194
Education during Reconstruction
196
2 School appropriations in South Carolina
197
3 Trials of a negro teacher
198
8 Educational conditions in Mississippi
204
9 A lesson in a Florida school
205
10 The White League after a teacher
206
11 Desire for education fast waning
207
12 The mistakes of the Reconstruction education
208
13 Armstrongs plans for negro education
209
RECONSTRUCTION IN THE CHURCHES
213
Introduction The Editor
215
References
218
Military regulation of churches
219
2 Military regulation of church services
222
3 Closing the Episcopal churches
223
4 A pugnacious Methodist preacher
228
Division or reunion
229
2 The Church situation in Virginia
230
3 Position of the Methodists in regard to reunion
233
4 Northern ministers driven
235
5 Border churches go with the South
236
Organizing Northern churches in the South
238
2 Reconstruction of Church and State
240
3 Disintegration and Absorption
243
6 Discouragement
257
Conditions in the negro churches
259
3 A persecuted negro church
260
4 The negro Episcopalians
261
SOCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS DURING RECONSTRUCTION
263
Introduction The Editor
265
References
268
The whites during Reconstruction
269
3 Fear of negro insurrection
270
4 Alarm among the whites
271
5 Thad Stevens is dead 6 Social ostracism of Republicans
272
7 Social conditions in 1875
273
Conditions among the negroes
276
2 Feeling between whites and blacks
277
3 Petty crimes among the blacks 4 The quadroons of Louisiana
279
5 Blacks do not like mulattoes
280
6 The rights of black women 7 Proof of Publicanism
281
8 Kissing negro babies for votes
282
9 Social ostracism of negro conservatives 10 After ten years of freedom
283
The Equal Rights issue
285
3 Intermarriage of races in Georgia
288
4 Marrying a nigger school marm
289
5 A mixed marriage at Port Gibson
291
6 Sumners views on equality
292
7 A Southern definition of equal rights
293
8 Political effects of civil rights agitation
294
9 Civil Rights Act 1875
295
Attempts at industrial reorganization
298
2 To encourage immigration
299
3 The effects of emancipation 4 Beginning with free negro labor
300
5 Making contracts with negroes
304
6 The first pay day on a plantation
305
7 The land question in Virginia
307
Conditions in the Black Belt and in the white districts
309
3 Negro opposition to immigration
310
4 The emancipation of white labor
311
5 An Englishmans estimate of free negro labor
312
6 Cities and varied industries
315
12 Cotton production by whites and blacks
323
THE KU KLUX MOVEMENT
325
Introduction The Editor
327
References
329
Causes of the Ku Klux movement
331
2 Why the Klan was formed in North Carolina
333
3 Dissatisfaction in South Carolina
335
4 An Englishmans statement of the causes
336
5 Stealing and race prejudice
337
6 Desire to get rid of the negro
338
7 A Scalawags opinion of the causes
339
8 Violation of the Appomattox Programme
340
9 General Forrests explanations
342
10 The Whites must and shall rule
344
The declarations of the secret orders
347
Section I
348
2 The Knights of the White Camelia
349
3 Initiation oath of the White Brotherhood
354
4 The 76 Association 5 The Council of Safety
355
6 Young Mens Democratic Club
356
7 A defensive organization
357
8 The White League
358
The methods and work of the secret orders
360
3 Ku Klux costume
364
4 Spreading news of the Klan
365
5 A Ku Klux order
366
6 A Ku Klux parade
367
7 Influence in the elections
370
8 Negro officials ordered to resign 9 Ku Klux discipline
371
10 A decent man is safer
374
The Klans outlawed
375
2 Martial law in Tennessee
376
THE UNDOING OF RECONSTRUCTION
379
Introduction The Editor
381
References
385
Meet brute force with brute force
387
Section 2
394
The South Carolina campaign 1876
405
1 End of carpetbag rule in Florida
415
Judicial interpretation of the Reconstruc
423
Legislative undoing of Reconstruction
431
7 Industrial decay of the Black Belt
439
10 Coming out of Egypt 11 Criminal negroes
443
12 Societies among the blacks
444
13 Hostility of the low whites 14 The only trouble now
445
15 Jim Crow cars
446
16 Superstition among the blacks
447
17 The negro churches
448
Limitation of the suffrage
450
2 South Carolina suffrage plan 3 The Grandfather plan
451
4 Old Soldier and Grandfather plans
453
INDEX
459

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