Chapter 1 Primary Sources

Primary Sources:

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

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