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Sale 2697 - Lot 340

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(RECONSTRUCTION.) [James G. Gibbes, photographer.] Radical Members of the So. Ca. Legislature. Albumen photograph, 5 x 4 inches, on original printed mount, captioned in the negative, additional printed caption below, with large printed key titled "Lines from Left to Right" on verso; slightly cropped, minor foxing. [Columbia, SC, circa 1868]
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Composite photograph of the members of South Carolina's Reconstruction legislature. Fifty members of the Legislature were African-Americans. The printed caption text offers statistics on the alleged illiteracy of the legislators and their low net worth, offering fodder to those hoping to end Reconstruction. By the end of the 1870s virtually all of these legislators had been replaced due to the poll taxes and gerrymandering as the era of segregation and disenfranchisement began. Among the men shown here is Joseph Hayne Rainey (lower right corner), later a United States Congressman.

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