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The Southern Negro during post Civil War...
The Southern Negro during post Civil War...
Item # 725119
August 09, 1865
NEW YORK TRIBUNE, Aug. 9, 1865
* Civil War reconstruction era
* Negroes in the Southern States
The top of the back page has a small heading: "From Mississippi" "Southern Opinion of the Negro..." (see images)
The front page column heads include: "FROM TEXAS" "Proclamation by Gov. Hamilton" "Recent Order to Gen. Sheridan" "Two-Thirds of His Army to be Mustered Out" "SARATOGA RACES" "The Cup Won by Kentucky" and much more. The back page has a report of a baseball game, with the box score.
Eight pages, uncut and untrimmed, good condition.
background: The July 28, 1865, report from Colonel Samuel Thomas in Vicksburg serves as a harrowing indictment of the post-war South's refusal to accept a new social order, documenting a period where "emancipation" existed in name but rarely in practice. Thomas detailed a culture of systemic "cruelty and injustice," reporting that the white population in Mississippi largely viewed the freedmen not as citizens, but as a displaced labor force that should remain under total white "supervision." He highlighted the terrifying frequency of unpunished violence—ranging from brutal lashings to cold-blooded murder—and noted that the local judicial system offered no recourse for Black victims, as white juries and officials refused to acknowledge the testimony or rights of the formerly enslaved. This report was instrumental in proving to the federal government that without the active, military presence of the Freedmen’s Bureau, the transition to free labor would devolve into a new form of "serfdom," characterized by fraudulent contracts and the terrorization of those seeking independence.
Category: Post-Civil War
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