Brief quotations by relatives, reformers, leading military men, and politicians of the day about the Union's leading general and President during the most turbulent years of Reconstruction.
The last part of Chapter 6 of Norman Coombs' "The Black Experience in America" (1971) focuses on the failure of Reconstruction and its aftermath to give African Americans a genuine chance for economic and political opportunity.
This page presents selections from Freedmen's Bureau reports of murders and outrages in South Carolina, Oct. 1865-Nov. 1868. Such activities were common throughout the former Confederacy after the Civil War.
