[AFRICAN AMERICANA]. A group of 17 issues of the New York Tribune with content regarding racial unrest, voting rights, and other topics. New York: 186

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Jun 25, 2021

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The June 25 American Historical Ephemera and Photography Auction features an exciting assemblage of 18th-early 20th century material, including Civil War archives, Early Photography, Western Americana, Autographs and Manuscripts, and more. Cowan's Auctions dawnie@cowans.com

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  8pp., folio, 18 x 23 1/2 in. Disbound (various, occasional chipping, a few with splits and fragile paper). Provenance: H. Albright (stamp near masthead)
  
  New York Tribune. Vol. XXII, Number 2,227. New York: 28 September 1866. "Letter from the Rev. Edward Beecher, D.D. to His Brother... one portion of the truth of God has gained an unbalanced ascendency over your mind, mad your theories of reconstruction one-sided and false." An article about "30 to f40 freedmen...now confined in the County Jail for want of means to pay the costs of their trial." Reports on the Pitts burgh Solders' and Sailors' Convention, held on 25-26 September 1866. Back page prints an unpublished 1864 speech by Lincoln regarding his intentions for running again for president. 
  
  Vol. XXII, No. 2,232. 16 October 1866. Page 5 reprints a speech of Henry Ward Beecher, much of which concerns slavery. 
  
  Vol. XXII, Number 2,234. 23 October 1866. Reports of racial tension, the Thanksgiving Proclamation by Reuben E. Fenton, and an article regarding "impartial suffrage" for African Americans. 
  
  Vol. XXII, Number 2,281. 5 April 1867. "Southern News. Reconstruction. Gen. Schofield has issued an order suspending all elections in Virginia until the registration of voters is completed." 
  
  Vol. XXIII, Number 2,319. 16 April 1867. "Gen. Grant in the South - the Civil Rights Case in Fairfax County - Arrest of Mr. Pendleton." 
  
  Vol. XXIII, Number 2,308. 9 July 1867. "Negores and Their Rights. The Radical basis of Government is Equal Rights for All Citizens. 
  
  Vol. XXIII, Number 2,315. 2 August 1867. A report of a "celebration in Brooklyn...The colored people of Brooklyn and its vicinity yesterday celebrated the "First of August" - the anniversary of the liberation of the slaves of the British West Indies - with appropriate observances."
  
  Vol. XXIII, Number 2,323. 30 August 1867. "The Result of the Registration...Returns from all except eight counties, received at headquarters, show the registration to be whites, 110,000, blacks, 90,000." "North Carolina. colored Jurors Allowed...Judge Fowle...recently gave a decision allowing colored jurors, stating that since the abolition of Slavery in 1865 by North Carolina, there was nothing excluding negroes from acting as jurors and since the Civil Rights bill was passed by Congress granting them all the rights of whites, they were fully entitled to act in this capacity."
  
  Vol. XXIII, Number 2,321. 23 August 1867. "Punishment for Whipping a Freedwoman."
  
  Vol. XXIII, Number 2,349. 29 November 1867. A long article on page 4 titled, "The Negro and the South" reports that "The Memphis Avalanche declares in substance as follows: After a fair trial, the negro has failed. To bring him up to a high standard is impossible." 
  
  Vol. XXIII, Number 2,356. 24 December 1867. "A Bureau Official Tarred and Varnished by Freedmen." 
  
  Vol. XXIII, Number 2,357. 27 December 1867. Reporting in Louisiana a new 1st article of the constitution, "All men are created free and equal..." "Florida. Colored Jurors...Seventeen colored men and six whites were drawn on the Grand Jury...Judge Fraser complimented the Grand Jury as the most attentive, intelligent, and industrious body of persons which has been assembled in many years." :Mississippi. Condition of the Freedmen - Report of Major-Gen. Gillem." reporting racial conflicts especially in regards to labor and land rights. 
  
  Vol. XXXI, Number 3,272. 3 October 1876. An article on page 4 chastises Democrats for continually denouncing Negro votes and rights: 
  
  Vol. XXXVI, Number 11,091. 16 October 1876. A long article on racial clashes in South Carolina. 
  
  Vol. XXXII, Number 3,326. 10 April 1877. Report "NEgro in South Carolina," reporting that little has changed since Civil Rights with African Amerians still doing all the manual labor, yet still categorized as "lazy" and "unabitious." Also discusses the conditions of Columbia State Prison noting the racial demographics: 30 white inmates and 400 Black. 
  
  Vol. XXXIII, Number 3,344. 12 June 1877. With reports of African American men appointed to government positions. 
  
  Vol. XXXIII, Number 3,399. 21 December 1877. An article on a baby exhibition of "Colored Children of All Shades.;
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