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Introduction
PRESIDENTIAL RECONSTRUCTION, 1865–1866
Frederick Douglass: What the Black Man Wants, January 26, 1865
Abraham Lincoln: Speech on Reconstruction, April 11, 1865
Springfield Republican: Restoration of the Union, April 20, 1865
Andrew Johnson: Interview with Pennsylvania Delegation, May 3, 1865
Colored Men of North Carolina to Andrew Johnson, May 10, 1865
Andrew Johnson: Reply to a Delegation of Colored Ministers, May 11, 1865
Salmon P. Chase to Andrew Johnson, May 12, 1865
Joseph Noxon to Andrew Johnson, May 27, 1865
Delegation of Kentucky Colored People to Andrew Johnson, June 9, 1865
Charles C. Soule and Oliver O. Howard: An Exchange, June 12 and 21, 1865
Richard Henry Dana: Speech at Boston, June 21, 1865
Charles Sumner to Gideon Welles, July 4, 1865
Wendell Phillips to the National Anti-Slavery Standard, July 8, 1865
Francis Preston Blair to Andrew Johnson, August 1, 1865
Colored People of Mobile to Andrew J. Smith, August 2, 1865
Jourdon Anderson to P. H. Anderson, August 7, 1865
Carl Schurz to Andrew Johnson, August 29, 1865
Christopher Memminger to Andrew Johnson, September 4, 1865
Thaddeus Stevens: Speech at Lancaster, September 6, 1865
Georges Clemenceau to Le Temps, September 28, 1865
George L. Stearns: Interview with President Johnson, October 3, 1865
Andrew Johnson: Speech to the 1st U.S. Colored Infantry, Washington, D.C., October 10, 1865
Sarah Whittlesey to Andrew Johnson, October 12, 1865
Edisto Island Freedmen to Andrew Johnson, October 28, 1865
J. A. Williamson to Nathan A. M. Dudley, October 30, 1865
Address of the Colored State Convention to the People of South Carolina, November 24, 1865
Andrew J. Hamilton to Andrew Johnson, November 27, 1865
Sidney Andrews: from The South Since the War
Carl Schurz: from Report on the Condition of the South
Ulysses S. Grant to Andrew Johnson, December 18, 1865
Lewis Hayden: from Caste among Masons
Harriet Jacobs to The Freedman, January 9 and 19, 1866
Marcus S. Hopkins to James Johnson, January 15, 1866
Andrew Johnson and Frederick Douglass: An Exchange, and Reply of the Colored Delegation to President Johnson, February 7, 1866
Joseph S. Fullerton to Andrew Johnson, February 9, 1866
Andrew Johnson: Veto of the Freedmen’s Bureau Bill, February 19, 1866
Andrew Johnson: Speech on Washington’s Birthday, February 22, 1866
Andrew Johnson: Veto of the Civil Rights Bill, March 27, 1866
CONGRESSIONAL RECONSTRUCTION, 1866–1869
Maria F. Chandler to Thaddeus Stephens, April 1, 1866
Harper’s Weekly: Radicalism and Conservatism, April 21, 1866
Thaddeus Stevens: Speech in Congress on the Fourteenth Amendment, May 8, 1866
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: Speech at the National Woman’s Rights Convention, May 10, 1866
George Stoneman to Ulysses S. Grant, May 12, 1866
The New York Times: An Hour With Gen. Grant, May 24, 1866
Elihu B. Washburne to Thaddeus Stevens, May 24, 1866
Cynthia Townsend: Testimony to House Select Committee, May 30, 1866
Joint Resolution Proposing the Fourteenth Amendment, June 13, 1866
Oliver P. Morton: from Speech at Indianapolis, June 20, 1866
Philip H. Sheridan to Ulysses S. Grant, August 1 and 2, 1866
Harper’s Weekly: The Massacre in New Orleans
Andrew Johnson: Speech at St. Louis, September 8, 1866
Thaddeus Stevens: Speech at Lancaster, September 27, 1866
Frederick Douglass: Reconstruction, December 1866
Thaddeus Stevens: Speech in Congress on Reconstruction, January 3, 1867
Mobile Daily Advertiser and Register: No Amendment—Stand Firm, January 9, 1867
Albion W. Tourgée: To the Voters of Guilford, October 21, 1867
Harper’s Weekly: Impeachment, December 14, 1867
Albion W. Tourgée: The Reaction, January 4, 1868
New-York Tribune: The President Must Be Impeached, February 24, 1868
Thaddeus Stevens: Speech in Congress on Impeachment, February 24, 1868
Bossier Banner: White Men to the Rescue!
The Nation: The Result of the Trial, May 21, 1868
Frank P. Blair to James O. Broadhead, June 30, 1868
Frederick Douglass: The Work Before Us, August 27, 1868
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Gerrit Smith on Petitions, January 14, 1869
Joint Resolution Proposing the Fifteenth Amendment, February 27, 1869
“LET US HAVE PEACE,” 1869–1873
Ulysses S. Grant: First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1869
Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony: Exchange on Suffrage, May 12, 1869
Mark Twain: Only a Nigger. The Buffalo Express, August 26, 1869
Georges Clemenceau to Le Temps, November 3, 1869
The New York Times: Reconstruction Nationalized, February 21, 1870
William W. Holden to Ulysses S. Grant, March 10, 1870
Ulysses S. Grant: Message to Congress on the Fifteenth Amendment, March 30, 1870
Albion W. Tourgée to Joseph C. Abbott, May 24, 1870
Robert K. Scott to Ulysses S. Grant, October 22, 1870
Horace Greeley and Robert Brown Elliott: Exchange on Amnesty, March 16–17, 1871
Joseph H. Rainey: Speech in Congress on the Enforcement Bill, April 1, 1871
James A. Garfield: from Speech in Congress on the Enforcement Bill, April 4, 1871
Maria Carter: Testimony to the Joint Select Committee, Atlanta, Georgia, October 21, 1871
Horace Greeley: Reply to Committee of the Liberal Republican Convention, May 20, 1872
Frederick Douglass: Speech at New York City, September 25, 1872
James S. Pike: South Carolina Prostrate, March 29, 1873
Ulysses S. Grant: Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1873
THE END OF RECONSTRUCTION, 1873–1877
Levi Nelson and Benjamin Brim: Testimony in the Colfax Massacre Trial, New Orleans, February 27 and March 3, 1874
Robert Brown Elliott: Speech in Congress on the Civil Rights Bill, January 6, 1874
New York Herald: General Grant’s New Departure, January 20, 1874
Richard Harvey Cain: Speech in Congress on the Civil Rights Bill, January 24, 1874
James T. Rapier: Speech in Congress on the Civil Rights Bill, June 9, 1874
William Lloyd Garrison to the Boston Journal, September 3, 1874
Eugene Lawrence to Harper’s Weekly, October 31, 1874
Isaac Loveless to Ulysses S. Grant, November 9, 1874
Ulysses S. Grant: from Annual Message to Congress, December 7, 1874
Philip H. Sheridan to William W. Belknap, January 4 and 5, 1875
Carl Schurz: from Speech in the Senate on Louisiana, January 11, 1875
William Lloyd Garrison to the Boston Journal, January 12, 1875
Ulysses S. Grant: Message to the Senate on Louisiana, January 13, 1875
John R. Lynch: from Speech in Congress on the Civil Rights Bill, February 3, 1875
Thomas Whitehead: from Speech in Congress on the Civil Rights Bill, February 3, 1875
Charles A. Eldredge: Speech in Congress on the Civil Rights Bill, February 4, 1875
James A. Garfield: from Speech in Congress on the Civil Rights Bill, February 4, 1875
Hinds County Gazette: How to Meet the Case, August 4, 1875
Ulysses S. Grant to Edwards Pierrepont, September 13, 1875
Edwards Pierrepont to Adelbert Ames, September 14, 1875
Sarah A. Dickey to Ulysses S. Grant, September 23, 1875
Margaret Ann Caldwell: Testimony to the Select Senate Committee, June 20, 1876
Albion W. Tourgée: Root, Hog, or Die, c. 1876
John R. Lynch: Speech in Congress on Mississippi, February 10, 1876
Ulysses S. Grant to Daniel H. Chamberlain, July 26, 1876
The Nation: The South in the Canvass. The Nation, July 27, 1876
Robert G. Ingersoll: from Speech at Indianapolis, September 21, 1876
David Brundage to Ulysses S. Grant, October 14, 1876
Rutherford B. Hayes: Diary, November 12, 1876
Abram Hewitt: Memorandum of Conversation with Ulysses S. Grant, December 3, 1876
Chicago Tribune: The Court of Arbitration, January 21, 1877
St. Louis Globe Democrat: The Warning, March 31, 1877
The Nation: The Political South Hereafter, April 5, 1877
CODA, 1879
John Russell Young: from Around the World With General Grant
Joseph H. Rainey: From Remarks in Congress on South Carolina Elections, March 3, 1879
Chronology
Biographical Notes
Note on the Texts
Notes
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