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RARE COLUMBIA, SC PRINTING (KLAN.) Proceedings at the Ku Klux Trials at Columbia, S.C. in the United States Circuit Court, November Term, 1871. Printed From Government Copy. 835, [i], 12 pages. Thick 8vo, original black morocco-backed marbled paper-covered boards, slightly bowed; damp-stain to the gutter of the first three blank leaves, otherwise bright and fresh throughout. Columbia, S.C.: Republican Printing Company, 1872
the rare south carolina printing, gotten up mostly for local consumption. 'Nowhere did the Klan become more entrenched than in a group of Piedmont, S.C. counties where medium sized farms predominated and the races were about equal in number. . . . An outbreak of terror followed the 1870 elections in which Republicans (blacks) retained a tenuous hold on power in the region. In York county, nearly the entire male population joined the Klan, and committed at least eleven murders and hundreds of whippings. By February of 1871 thousands of blacks had taken to the woods each night to avoid assault.' (Eric Foner, Reconstruction). Troops were sent in to root out the Klan and these hearings were held as a response. The testimony, hundreds of pages of which appear here, is truly horrifying. The seeds of the first wave of the mass migration, or 'Exodus' as it came to be called began here. A key Reconstruction document. The Washington printing of this is common, OCLC only locates 2 copies of this printing.
