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Been in the Storm So Long_ The Aftermath of Slavery - Leon F. Litwack [469]

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to Maj. George A. Hicks, Oct. 2, 1865, Brock Collection, Henry E. Huntington Library; Maj. M. R. Delany to Bvt. Lt. Col. H. W. Smith, Aug. 1, 1866, H. S. Van Eaton to Bvt. Maj. Gen. A. C. Gillem, Nov. 24, 1867, Records of the Assistant Commissioners, South Carolina and Mississippi (Letters Received), Freedmen’s Bureau; Andrews, The South since the War, 322–23, 368; Trowbridge, The South, 362–64; Loyal Georgian, Jan. 27, 1866; 39 Cong., 1 Sess., Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, Part II, 52, 222, 225, 259.

78. Christian Recorder, March 31, 1866. See also Dennett, The South As It Is, 331–32, 338–39.

79. Wiley, “Vicissitudes of Early Reconstruction Farming in the Lower Mississippi Valley,” 448; Wilmer Shields to William Newton Mercer, Dec. 19, 1865, Mercer Papers, Louisiana State Univ.; Rogers, History of Georgetown County, 432.

80. Eppes, Negro of the Old South, 128–29; Reid, After the War, 527; Andrews, The South since the War, 322; Leigh, Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation, 76.

81. Reid, After the War, 527–28.

82. Trowbridge, The South, 366; Richardson, Negro in the Reconstruction of Florida, 60; 40 Cong., 2 Sess., House Exec. Doc. 1, Report of the Commissioner of the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, November 1, 1867, 681; Colored Tennessean, Oct. 4, 1865.

83. Leigh, Ten Years on a Georgia Plantation, 76–77; Bvt. Maj. Thomas H. Norton to Maj. A. W. Preston, Aug. 3, 1867, Records of the Assistant Commissioners, Mississippi (Letters Received), Freedmen’s Bureau. See also Dennett, The South As It Is, 332, 338.

84. De Forest, Union Officer in the Reconstruction, 73–75. See also Capt. A. Preston to Lt. Stuart Eldridge, June 7, 1866, Records of the Assistant Commissioners, Mississippi (Letters Received), Freedmen’s Bureau.

85. Trowbridge, The South, 363; Macrae, Americans at Home, 323–24; Rawick (ed.), American Slave, VII: Okla. Narr., 283; Maj. and Bvt. Lt. Col. J. E. Cornelius to Bvt. Maj. Edward L. Deane, Dec. 22, 1866, Records of the Assistant Commissioners, South Carolina (Letters Received), Freedmen’s Bureau. See also Ames, From a New England Woman’s Diary in Dixie, 120, and WPA, Negro in Virginia, 221.

86. Donald MacRae to Julia MacRae, Sept. 4, 1865, MacRae Papers, Duke Univ.; Dr. Ethelred Philips to Dr. James J. Philips, Aug. 2, 1865, James J. Philips Collection, Univ. of North Carolina. For fears and expectations of an “emancipation insurrection,” see also Edward Lynch to Joseph Glover [c. June 1865], John W. Burbidge to Joseph Glover, July 28, 1865, Glover-North Papers, Univ. of South Carolina; A. R. Salley to “My Dear Aunt,” Nov. 13, 1865, Bruce-Jones-Murchison Papers, Univ. of South Carolina; Samuel A. Agnew, Ms. Diary, entries for Nov. 3, 21, 22, 1865, Univ. of North Carolina; Jabez Curry to Gov. Lewis Parsons, Sept. 29, 1865, John Swanson to Gov. Parsons, Oct. 3, 1865, Thomas Smith to Capt. J. H. Weber, Nov. 3, 1865, Records of the Assistant Commissioners, Alabama (Curry and Swanson) and Mississippi (Smith) (Letters Received), Freedmen’s Bureau; South Carolina Leader, Dec. 23, 1865; New Orleans Tribune, Oct. 21, 1865; New York Times, Nov. 12, 1865; Dennett, The South As It Is, 190, 275; Andrews, The South since the War, 27; Reid, After the War, 386–87; Williamson, After Slavery, 249–52; Wharton, Negro in Mississippi, 59, 218–19.

87. Sebastian Kraft to President Andrew Johnson, Aug. [April?] 28, 1865, Records of the Assistant Commissioners, South Carolina (Letters Received), Freedmen’s Bureau; Reid, After the War, 386; Dennett, The South As It Is, 190.

88. Williamson, After Slavery, 249–50, 250–51; Reid, After the War, 387n.-89n.

89. 39 Cong., 1 Sess., Report of the Joint Committee on Reconstruction, Part III, 30; John P. Bardwell to Rev. M. E. Strieby, Nov. 4, 1865, American Missionary Assn. Archives; Moore (ed.), The Juhl Letters (Oct. 28, 1865), 51; South Carolina Leader, Dec. 9, 1865; Dennett, The South As It Is, 240–41; Col. James C. Beecher to Maj. Kinsman, Oct. 7, 1865, W. E. Towne to Bvt. Maj. Gen. Saxton, Aug. 17, 1865, Records of the Assistant Commissioners, South

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