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Fort Benning’s Namesake Explained the Reason for Georgia’s Secession at Virginia Secession Convention
Henry Benning, after whom the Army base Fort Benning in Georgia is named, was a leader of the secession movement in his home state. After…
Freedmen’s Bureau Report for Virginia Sept. 30, 1868-The trials of whites for the murder of Negroes
By October, 1868, when this report on the work of the Freedmen’s Bureau in Virginia was published, the Bureau was just three months away from…
Platform of the Virginia Conservatives April 1869 “setting forth the policy of the white people of the state”
This platform was adopted by the Virginia Conservative Party on April 29, 1869. The Conservatives were a party made up of Democrats and old Whigs…
Reconstruction Era Virginia Village of Willisville Settled by Freed Slaves Placed on National Register of Historic Places
The African American settlement of Willisville in Loudoun County Virginia was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in December. Willisville was a free Black…
Congratulating Virginia for Rejecting Black Citizenship Under the 14th Amendment January 1867
On January 9, 1867 Virginia rejected the proposed 14th Amendment. The Amendment granted United States citizenship to anyone born in the United States, including former…
Resource: Reconstruction in Virginia
The Library of Virginia has an interesting online exhibit on Reconstruction in Virginia. You can check it out here. The online exhibit includes documents and…
Virginia Conservatives Vow to Work to Place Nation Back “Under the Control of the White Race” (1867)
In 1867 a coalition of Democrats and Old Whigs formed the Virginia Conservative Party. This party would quickly become the voice of propertied white Virginians….
Resisting Carpet-Baggery And Mongrel Reconstruction in Virginia July 1868
In July 1868 Virginia was considering ratification of a new Constitution in line with the requirements imposed for its Reconstruction as a state and for…
Arguing Against Civil Rights in 1875 “You have not the power to make him white, and he never will be satisfied”
Thomas Whitehead was a former Confederate officer who was elected to Congress from Virginia in 1872. In 1875 he gave a speech opposing the Civil…
Virginia: Failed Attempt to Replace “Worthless Negroes” with Immigrant Laborers in 1868
After the Civil War, there were various unsuccessful schemes to import European immigrants to the South. White employers hoped to fill labor shortages created when…
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