Reconstruction in Georgia: Economic, Social, Political, 1865-1872, Volume 64, Issue 1

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Columbia University Press, 1915 - Reconstruction - 418 pages
 

Contents

Care of destitute freedmen
47
Control of vagrancy
49
Rumor of insurrection
50
Question of labor
52
Attitude of white people toward emancipation
53
Improved labor situation in 1866
54
Negroes in towns
55
Freedmen on the Sea Islands
57
Report of General Steedman and General Fullerton
58
Experience of Frances Butler Leigh
60
General Tillson of the Freedmens Bureau
61
Criticism of the Freedmens Bureau
63
Address of H V Johnson before the Convention
66
Outrages in two sections of the state 2 Conditions in the northwest
89
The revision of colonial laws 9396
93
COMMERCIAL Revival
95
Cotton trade 2 Cotton prices 3 Business in cities and towns 4 Resurrection of Atlanta
99
Conditions in the eastern cotton belt
108
Columbus
110
Organization of the Ku Klux Klan 5 Disturbance in cities
115
Cotton shipping in Savannah 7 Augusta
126
Attitude of Georgians toward Northerners
127
Race relations
129
Social disorder
131
CHAPTER VI
136
Provisional government
144
Appointment of Provisional Governor Johnson
152
Reorganized state government
153
Election of United States Senators
154
Ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment
156
Freedmens Code Commission
158
Attitude of Georgia people toward Presidential Reconstruction
160
Rates of wages
164
Summary 18651866
165
MILITARY AND POLITICAL RECON STRUCTION 18671872
169
CHAPTER VII
171
Letter of exGovernor Brown
172
Military rule under General Pope
175
Newspaper and Jury Orders
177
Removal of General Pope
178
Military rule under General Meade
179
Relation of military to civil authority
180
Differences between General Meade and Governor Bullock
183
Ogeechee insurrection 8 Camilla riot
185
Registration
186
Constitutional Convention 18671868
188
Personnel of the Convention
189
Work of the Convention
193
CHAPTER VIII
199
Democratic Conservative Party
213
CHAPTER IX
226
Repudiation
234
Question of the admission of Georgia before Congress
257
Reorganization
265
PAGE
268
Democratic victory in the state election December 1870
272
INDUSTRY COMMERCE BankING 1 Manufactures 305 2 Increase in some industries 3 Textiles
305
Lumber
307
Macon Athens Milledgeville 9 Manufactures
308
Industrial labor
309

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