Clothed in the rhetoric of biblical prophecy and national destiny and born of a bloody civil war, emancipation accomplished a profound social revolution. The Freedmen and Southern Society Project was established in 1976 to capture the essence of that revo
The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands was established in March 3, 1865 after two years of bitter debate. The Freedmen Bureau, as it was commonly called, was to address all matters concerning refugees and freedmen within the states that were
Statements, depositions, and other records submitted by Gov. William W. Holden relating to crimes of the Ku Klux Klan against citizens of North Carolina, 1869 - 1871