Documentary History of Reconstruction: Political, Military, Social, Religious, Educational & Industrial, 1865 to the Present Time, Volume 1

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A.H. Clark Company, 1906 - Buildings
Narrative of Bering's second expedition, 1733-1743, by an expedition member.
 

Contents

Northern men in the South
43
The Garrisons
47
Influence of the Confederates
63
From slavery to freedom
72
Some troubles and disappointments of freedom
89
Consideration of negro suffrage
95
Introduction The Editor
105
Johnsons opinions and theories
116
Southern views on Reconstruction
127
Unionist plans
134
Charles Sumners State suicide theory
144
Various plans and suggestions
154
RESTORATION BY THE PRESIDENT
161
Introduction The Editor
163
References
165
The Presidents plan in operation
167
2 Southern state governments not recognized 3 Johnsons proclamation of amnesty
168
4 Appointment of a provisional governor
171
5 Forming a Johnson state government
174
6 President Johnson on negro suffrage 7 A debate on the abolition of slavery
177
8 Abolition in North Carolina
179
9 The ordinance of secession null and void 10 Repudiation of the Confederate debt
180
11 Organizing a new state government
181
12 Laws in force after the
183
13 Slavery and suffrage in a new constitution 14 The Thirteenth Amendment
185
15 Stantons opinion of Johnsons policy in 1866
186
The provisional governments in the South
189
2 The effects of the Test Oath
190
3 The iron clad Test Oath
191
4 The Alabama legislature on the state of the Union
192
5 The legal end of the
193
6 A Southern opinion of the Johnson governments
195
Opposition of Congress
197
3 The restoration of Tennessee
202
Military government 18651866
203
National politics 1866
213
3 Cleveland Convention platform
215
4 Pittsburg Convention resolutions
216
5 President Johnsons Cleveland speech
218
Politics in the South 1866
228
2 The Louisiana Democratic platform
229
3 Radical politics in Virginia
230
4 Speeches of a Radical agitator
231
5 A negro politician in Florida
232
Rejection of the Fourteenth Amendment
234
2 The Fourteenth Amendment rejected in Florida 3 Arkansas rejects the Fourteenth Amendment
236
4 The President opposes the Fourteenth Amendment
237
5 A Southern proposal for a Fourteenth Amendment
238
BLACK CODES
241
Introduction The Editor
243
References
246
Discussion of race and labor problems
247
2 The negro problem in Mississippi
251
3 Reasons for admitting negro testimony
254
4 Labor problems in Florida
255
5 The duty of the whites to the negroes
257
6 Negro testimony in North Carolina
259
17 The labor situation in Alabama
266
Rights of the negro in Virginia
267
19 The negro under the provisional government
269
10 A negros view of the Black Laws
271
Laws relating to freedmen
273
2 Intermarriage between the races forbidden Alabama 3 Civil rights of negroes in Arkansas
274
4 Negro testimony in Alabama courts 5 Labor contracts in Florida
275
6 Schools for freedmen in Florida
277
7 Regulations for freedmen in Louisiana
279
8 A Mississippi Jim Crow
281
9 Mississippi apprentice
282
10 Mississippi vagrant
283
11 Civil Rights of freedmen in Mississippi
286
12 Certain offenses of freedmen Mississippi
289
13 North Carolina Black Code
290
14 The domestic relations of negroes pauperism and vagrancy South Carolina
294
15 Persons of color in Tennessee
310
16 The negro in the new constitutions
311
4 The Bureau and the laws of the states 5 Regulation of labor contracts
332
10 Jealousy of the army
344
11 The fate of the Old Time Southerner
345
12 Dislike of the Bureau in Kentucky
346
13 Bureau courts in Georgia
347
14 Failure of the colonization plan
348
Forty acres and a mule
350
2 The policy of the Bureau in regard to confiscation
352
3 Freedmen expect lands
353
4 Confiscations in South Carolina
354
5 Some results of Shermans order
356
6 Land certificates in Florida
358
7 Painted pegs from Washington
359
8 Sales of striped pegs
360
Estimates and opinions of the Bureaus work
361
3 The necessity for the Bureau
362
1 The Bureau and the negro troops
363
5 A Northern mans opinion
364
6 Views of John Minor Botts 7 Productive only of mischief
365
8 Criticism of the Bureau not disloyalty
366
9 The Bureau demoralized labor 10 Wade Hamptons opinion of the Bureau
367
11 Influence in labor and politics
369
12 The Bureau as a political machine
370
13 Political activities of Bureau officials
371
14 The workings of the Bureau
373
15 Success of the Bureau
375
16 A negros description of the Bureau
376
17 Charges against General Howard
379
The Freedmens Bank
382
2 In successful operation
383
3 Information and instruction
384
4 Statistics of savings
385
5 Frederick Douglass and the Freedmens Bank
386
6 Investigation of the Bank
389
7 Experience of a depositor
393
RECONSTRUCTION BY CONGRESS
395
Introduction The Editor
397
References
399
Congress begins reconstruction
401
2 The command of the army
403
3 Tenure of Office
404
4 Supplementary Reconstruction
407
The Souths reception of the policy of Con gress
420
2 Justice to the blacks 3 A negros speech
421
4 Beginning of opposition
422
5 Opposition of the whites in Arkansas
423
6 Virtue and intelligence under foot
424
7 A Southern Radical platform
426
The use of the army in reconstruction
428
2 Status of state officials
429
3 Registrars and registration districts
430
4 Enrolling the new electorate
431
5 Persons disfranchised
433
6 Interference with the civil government
435
7 Regulation of local government
437
8 Military police and courts
439
9 General Grant versus the attorney general
440
10 Freedom of the press limited 11 Forcing patriotism
441
12 General Sheridan in New Orleans
442
13 Military misrule in Alabama
443
14 Military justice
444
15 Completion of military reconstruction
447
16 Military districts discontinued
448
In the Black and Tan Conventions
449
2 Correcting the vocabulary of South Carolina 3 Lands for the freedmen
450
4 Disfranchising exConfederates in Alabama
452
Opposition to the new constitutions
454
2 Objections to the new constitution of South Carolina 3 Whites petition against Reconstruction
455
Impeachment of the President
458
Fourteenth Amendment
476
3 The Fourteenth Amendment
478
Reconstruction the issue in the campaign of 1868 480 1 The Republican platform on Reconstruction
480
2 The Democratic platform on Reconstruction
481
3 Views of F P Blair
483
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