Chapter 1 Primary Sources
Primary Sources:
- 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution
- Jourdon Anderson Writes His Former Enslaver, 1865
- Charlotte Forten Teaches Freed Children in South Carolina, 1864
- Robert Brown Elliot, Congressman from South Carolina, Delivers Speech in Support of Civil Rights Act, 1874
- Harriet Hernandes, a South Carolina Woman, Testifies against the Ku Klux Klan, 1871
- Charlotte Forten Teaches Freed Children in South Carolina, 1864
- Mississippi Black Code, 1865
- Frederick Douglass on Remembering the Civil War, 1877
- Johnson and Reconstruction Cartoon, 1866
- A Sharecrop Contract