Who Owns this Land?
Michael O'Malley, Associate Professor of History and Art History, George Mason University
Assignment: Documents on Reconstruction
Task
Read at least twelve of these documents on Reconstruction. They cover a wide range of views and opinions: most are quite short. As you work, cut and paste material you think relevant to your argument into the Scribe database. Use this material, in quotes or in paraphrase, to support the argument you make in your speech.
- George Clemenceau
- J. McKaye
- Wendell Phillips
- General Rufus Saxton
- Radical Republican Thaddeus Stevens
- Francis Cardozo
- Melton Linton
- Louisiana Freedmen
- The National Freedmen
- Baley Wyat
- Debow's Review on Chinese Labor
- Debow's Review on European Labor
- Debow's Review on the Radicals
- William Finck (D-Ohio)
- Mississippi “Black Code”
- The New York Times (1)
- The New York Times (2)
- The New York Times (3)
- Samuel Thomas
- Colonel Whittlesey
- Reverend Henry Dexter
- Harper's Weekly
- New Orleans Tribune
Updated | April 2004