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Defending the Right of Whites to Fire Blacks Who Voted Republican to Prevent Mongrelism- South Carolina Nov. 1868

Supporters of white supremacy did not only use violence to influence the votes of African Americans. They also threatened to fire them if they voted…

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Posted in Civil War Lost Cause Memory of Reconstruction Monuments Videos

Civil War Monuments and the Militarization of America Video Talk by Thomas Brown

Our friends over at the Journal of Civil War History have posted another great Zoom program. This one is on Civil War monuments. Professor Thomas…

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Posted in Land Reform Memory of Reconstruction White Supremacy White Supremacy Apologetics

Reconstruction and “The Limits of Black Forgiveness”

I like to link readers of The Reconstruction Era Blog to scholars writing online. Scott Hancock is a professor of History and Africana Studies at…

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University of South Carolina Honored Its First Black Professor (1873) With a Statue

​Richard T. Greener holds two academic “firsts.” He was the first African American to graduate from Harvard (1870) and he was the first black professor…

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Woodrow Wilson Home in South Carolina to Include Story of Reconstruction and Jim Crow

The Woodrow Wilson Home in Columbia, South Carolina, is reopening after a years-long retoration. The home was once used as a shrine to the late…

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Posted in 13th Amendment Emancipation Proclamation

January 1 Was Celebrated in Black Communities as Emancipation Day, a Commemoration of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation

January 1 was celebrated in Black communities as Emancipation Day, a commemoration of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. Here is a newspaper article on Emancipation Day Jan….

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The Scientific Defense of the Segregation of Southern Schools by Race

From the conservative Democratic newspaper the Yorkville Enquirer comes the opinion of science in favor of racial segregation and white superiority. This South Carolina newspaper…

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Posted in Elections White Supremacy White Terror

Wade Hampton & South Carolina Democrats Call for a Halt to Assassinations Nov. 1868

Following a series of assassinations of Republicans during the weeks leading up to the Nov. 1868 elections, the South Carolina Democratic Committee issued a call…

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Posted in African Americans Emancipation & Reconstruction Civil War

Atlantic Magazine Reporter on His Three Month Journey Through the Post-War South 1865

The February 1866 Atlantic Magazine published this report of a three month trip by journalist Sidney Andrews through the post-war South. Andrews described the extent…

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Resource-After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Low Country Carolinas

I recently learned about this free on-line resource After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Low Country Carolinas. You can access it here. This…

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