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Defining Documents in American History: Reconstruction Era (1865–1877)

Table of Contents

Publisher's Note




Editor's Introduction




Contributors




Debating Reconstruction




“The Absolute Equality of All Men before the Law, the Only True Basis of Reconstruction”




Prospects of the Freedmen of Hilton Head




Thaddeus Stevens: Speech to Congress




Alexander Stephens: “On Reconstruction”




Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction




“The One Man Power vs. Congress”




Frederick Douglass: “Reconstruction”




Communities in Need




Letter from Black Soldiers of North Carolina to the Freedmen's Bureau Commissioner




Address of a Convention of Negroes Held in Alexandria, VA




“The Education of the Freedmen”




Letters from Louisiana




Letter from Roanoke Island




The Sad State of Indian Affairs




Acts of State




The Freedmen's Bureau Bill




Civil Rights Act of 1866




First Reconstruction Act




Second Reconstruction Act




Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments to the Constitution




Articles of Impeachment against President Andrew Johnson




President Grant's First Inaugural Address




Black Codes and White Lives




Mississippi Black Code




Louisiana Black Code




Letter to T.P. Chandler




“A Long Silence”




From Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation since the War




Extreme Reactions




Notice from the Ku Klux Klan to Davie Jeems




“The First-Class Men in Our Town”




Letter to Senator Joseph C. Abbott on the Ku Klux Klan




A Contested Election: Report to Congress on the Activities of the Ku Klux Klan




From Recollections of the Inhabitants, Localities, Superstitions, and Ku Klux Outrages of the Carolinas, by a “Carpet-Bagger” Who Was Born and Lived There




Reconstruction Moves Ahead




“The North Owes the Colored Race a Deep Obligation”




Letter to Republican Senators and Representatives




“A Plea for General Amnesty”




“Half Free, Half Slave”




Civil Rights Act of 1875




An Ambiguous Legacy




United States v. Cruikshank




Blanche Bruce: Speech in the Senate




Freedmen's Monument Speech




Ulysses S. Grant: Letter to Daniel H. Chamberlain




Sharecropping Contract




Appendixes



Chronological List


Web Resources


Bibliography