Changes in Law and Society during the Civil War and Reconstruction: A Legal History Documentary Reader

Illustrations

Illustrations 1. “Effects of the Fugitive-Slave-Law” · 27 2. An 1855 broadside depicting scenes from Anthony Burns’s escape, arrest, and return to bondage · 38 3. “The very words of poor Peter, taken as he sat for his picture” · 41 4. Five generations on Smith’s Plantation, Beaufort, South Carolina · 58 5. “President Lincoln, Writing the Proclamation of Freedom” · 111 6. Caricature of Lincoln writing the Emancipation Proclamation, by Adalbert Volck · 112 7. “Breaking that ‘Backbone’” · 114 8. Carte de visite of the William Tolman Carleton painting Waiting for the Hour · 114 9 and 10. Hubbard Pryor as a slave and as a private in the 44th U.S. Colored Infantry · 118 11. Black artist David Bustill Bowser’s design of the six-footsquare silk colors of the 6th U.S. Colored Infantry · 119 12. “The Gallant Charge of the Fifty Fourth Massachusetts (Colored) Regiment” · 122 13. The 26th U.S. Colored Infantry in training at Camp William Penn before heading into action in South Carolina · 148 14. Company E, 4th U.S. Colored Infantry, at Fort Lincoln, D.C. · 156 15. Emancipation Day commemoration at Port Royal, South Carolina · 157 16. Jubilant ex-slaves greet the 55th Massachusetts as the regiment enters Charleston, South Carolina · 159 17. A black regiment musters out at Little Rock, Arkansas · 160 18. “And Not This Man?” · 182 19. “The First Vote” · 212 20. “This Is a White Man’s Government” · 213 21. “Uncle Sam’s Thanksgiving Dinner” · 226 22. “The Result of the Fifteenth Amendment” · 227 23. “Visit of the Ku-Klux” · 231 24. “The Union as It Was. The Lost Cause, Worse Than Slavery” · 255 xiii Changes in Law and Society during the Civil War and Reconstruction ...