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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Acknowledgments
Contents
Chronology of Reconstruction
Introduction
PART I
“AN ACT FOR THE RELEASE OF CERTAIN PERSONS HELD TO SERVICE OR LABOR IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, “PRELIMINARY EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, “EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION”
“PROCLAMATION OF AMNESTY AND RECONSTRUCTION”
THE WADE-DAVIS BILL
LINCOLN’S RESPONSE TO THE WADE-DAVIS BILL
THE WADE-DAVIS MANIFESTO
HENRY HIGHLAND GARNET, “LET THE MONSTER PERISH”
“AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A BUREAU FOR THE RELIEF OF FREEDMEN AND REFUGEES”
ABRAHAM LINCOLN, “SECOND INAUGURAL ADDRESS”
PART II
CHARLES SUMNER, “RIGHT AND DUTY OF COLORED FELLOW-CITIZENS IN THE ORGANIZATION OF GOVERNMENT”
ANDREW JOHNSON, “PROCLAMATION ESTABLISHING GOVERNMENT FOR NORTH CAROLINA”
ANDREW JOHNSON, “AMNESTY PROCLAMATION”
EMILY WATERS TO HER HUSBAND
THADDEUS STEVENS, “RECONSTRUCTION”
“A FREEDMEN’S BUREAU OFFICER REPORTS ON CONDITIONS IN MISSISSIPPI”
“FROM EDISTO ISLAND FREEDMEN TO ANDREW JOHNSON”
ANDREW JOHNSON, “MESSAGE TO CONGRESS”
AMENDMENT 13
“REPORT OF CARL SCHURZ ON THE STATES OF SOUTH CAROLINA, GEORGIA, ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, AND LOUISIANA”
LAWS OF THE STATE OF MISSISSIPPI
JOSEPH S. FULLERTON TO ANDREW JOHNSON
JOHN RICHARD DENNETT, “VICKSBURG, MISS.”
PART III
CHARLES SUMNER TO THE DUCHESS OF ARGYLL
THE CIVIL RIGHTS ACT OF 1866
BENJAMIN C. TRUMAN, “RELATIVE TO THE CONDITION OF THE SOUTHERN PEOPLE AND THE STATES IN WHICH THE REBELLION EXISTED”
CARL SCHURZ, “THE LOGICAL RESULTS OF THE WAR”
STATEMENT OF RHODA ANN CHILDS
GEORGE FITZHUGH, “CAMP LEE AND THE FREEDMAN’S [SIC] BUREAU”
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, “RECONSTRUCTION”
“PRESIDENT JOHNSON’S MESSAGE”
EXCERPTS FROM CLAUDE AUGUST CROMMELIN, A YOUNG DUTCHMAN VIEWS POST–CIVIL WAR AMERICA
HENRY LATHAM, BLACK AND WHITE: A JOURNAL OF A THREE MONTHS’ TOUR IN THE UNITED STATES
“AN ACT TO PROVIDE FOR MORE EFFICIENT GOVERNMENT OF THE REBEL STATES”
EDITORIAL IN THE CHARLOTTESVILLE CHRONICLE ON RADICAL RECONSTRUCTION
“THE PROSPECT OF RECONSTRUCTION”
“IMPEACHMENT FROM A LEGAL POINT OF VIEW”
“CONGRESS AND THE CONSTITUTION”
“THE PROSPECT AT THE SOUTH”
“LAND FOR THE LANDLESS”
THE RECONSTRUCTION ACT: PRO AND CON
“THE FREEDMEN”
THADDEUS STEVENS, “RECONSTRUCTION”
“THE NEGRO’S CLAIM TO OFFICE”
“SAMSON AGONISTES AT WASHINGTON”
GEORGE FITZHUGH, “CUI BONO?—THE NEGRO VOTE”
“THE VIRGINIA ELECTION”
“WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH THE INDIANS?”
ANDREW JOHNSON, “THIRD ANNUAL MESSAGE”
J. T. TROWBRIDGE, A PICTURE OF THE DESOLATED STATES; AND THE WORK OF RESTORATION, 1865–1868 (1868)
CORNELIA HANCOCK TO PHILADELPHIA FRIENDS ASSOCIATION FOR THE AID AND ELEVATION OF THE FREEDMEN
FRANCIS L. CARDOZO, “BREAK UP THE PLANTATION SYSTEM”
“THE IMPEACHMENT,” NEW YORK TIMES
S. A. ATKINSON, “THE SUPREME HOUR HAS COME”
“KARINUS,” LETTER TO THE EDITOR—“EQUAL SUFFRAGE IN MICHIGAN”
“THIS LITTLE BOY WOULD PERSIST IN HANDLING BOOKS ABOVE HIS CAPACITY”
THADDEUS STEVENS, “SPEECH ON IMPEACHMENT TRIAL OF ANDREW JOHNSON”
“THE RESULT OF THE TRIAL”
REPUBLICAN NATIONAL PLATFORM OF 1868
CAREY STYLES, “NOT OUR ‘BROTHER’ ”
AMENDMENT 14
HENRY MCNEAL TURNER, “I CLAIM THE RIGHTS OF A MAN”
“REMARKS OF WILLIAM E. MAT[T]HEWS”
ULYSSES S. GRANT, “INAUGURAL ADDRESS”
LYDIA MARIA CHILD, “HOMESTEADS”
AMENDMENT 15
FREDERICK DOUGLASS, “AT LAST, AT LAST, THE BLACK MAN HAS A FUTURE”
CARL SCHURZ, “ENFORCEMENT OF THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT”
“AN ACT TO ENFORCE THE RIGHT OF CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES TO VOTE IN THE SEVERAL STATES OF THIS UNION, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES”
PROCEEDINGS OF THE KU KLUX TRIALS AT COLUMBIA, S.C., IN THE UNITED STATES CIRCUIT COURT, NOVEMBER TERM, 1871
HIRAM R. REVELS, “ABOLISH SEPARATE SCHOOLS”
ROBERT BROWN ELLIOTT, “THE AMNESTY BILL”
“AN ACT TO ENFORCE THE PROVISIONS OF THE FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES, AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES”
PART IV
CHARLES STEARNS, THE BLACK MAN OF THE SOUTH, AND THE REBELS; OR, THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE FORMER, AND THE RECENT OUTRAGES OF THE LATTER
THOMAS NAST, “THE MAN WITH THE (CARPET) BAGS”
JAMES S. PIKE, THE PROSTRATE STATE
ROBERT BROWN ELLIOTT, “THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL”
JOHN MERCER LANGSTON, “EQUALITY BEFORE THE LAW”
JAMES T. RAPIER, “CIVIL RIGHTS”
“AN ACT TO PROTECT ALL CITIZENS IN THEIR CIVIL AND LEGAL RIGHTS”
“THE NEGRO SPIRIT”
CARL SCHURZ, “HAYES VERSUS TILDEN”
THOMAS WENTWORTH HIGGINSON, “SOME WAR SCENES REVISITED”
D. H. CHAMBERLAIN, “RECONSTRUCTION AND THE NEGRO”
THE CIVIL RIGHTS CASES AND JUSTICE HARLAN’S DISSENT
WASHINGTON LAFAYETTE CLAYTON, OLDEN TIMES REVISITED
EXTRACTS FROM LAY MY BURDEN DOWN: A FOLK HISTORY OF SLAVERY
Sources of the Texts
Endnotes
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