(CIVIL RIGHTS KLAN KU KLUX) POLLARD EDWARD A The Key to the

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(CIVIL RIGHTS--KLAN, KU KLUX.) POLLARD, EDWARD A. The Key to the Klux. Individual Report and Revelation by Edward A. Pollard of the Conditions of the South. 32 pages, removed; some signs of "bark" to the spine; paper lightly and evenly toned. [Np, Richmond?, 1872]

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The author of this pamphlet, Edward A. Polard (1831-1872) was a Virginian, who wrote a number of pieces on the South, The Virginia Tourist and a Southern History of the War. He argues that the Ku Klux, White Camelia, or The Brotherhood as it was sometimes called was not in any way political. That its prime purpose was to thwart the progress and assimilation of the Negro. He does not in any way defend the Klan, but rather as a patriotic Southerner and defender of "The Lost Cause" condemns the Ku Klux for its Lynch Law and excesses.