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Paperback The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction Book

ISBN: 1469663457

ISBN13: 9781469663456

The Record of Murders and Outrages: Racial Violence and the Fight over Truth at the Dawn of Reconstruction

(Part of the Civil War America Series)

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After the Civil War's end, reports surged of violence by Southern whites against Union troops and Black men, women, and children. While some in Washington, D.C., sought to downplay the growing evidence of atrocities, in September 1866, Freedmen's Bureau commissioner O. O. Howard requested that assistant commissioners in the readmitted states compile reports of "murders and outrages" to catalog the extent of violence, to prove that the reports of a...

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