A Picture of the Desolated States, and the Work of Restoration. 1865-1868

CHAPTER LII.—A RECONSTRUCTED STATE.

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Ignorance of the Free-Labor System.—Serf Code.—Freedmen in Civil Courts.—Convention and Legislature.—State Militia.—White and Black Offenders.—Persecution of Union Men.—A Pardoned Rebel.—Freedmen’s Schools. 369