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Campaign Age
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De Bow's Review
Harper's New Monthly Magazine
Harper's Weekly
Liberator
Nation
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A Centennial Fourth of July Democratic Celebration. The Massacre of Six Colored Citizens of the United States at Hamburgh, S.C., on July 4, 1876.
Debate in the U.S. House of Representatives, July 15 and 18, 1876. http://www.archive.org/details/centennialfourth01unit.
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Reports of the Committees of the Senate
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Civil Rights Cases
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“Condition of the South.”
Index to Reports of Committees of the House of Representatives
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Congressional Globe.
“Diplomatic Correspondence.”
Executive Documents
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Inspector's Report of Affairs in Kentucky.
Executive Documents of the House of Representatives
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Executive Documents of the Senate.
40th Congress, 1st Session, and Special Session, 1867. Washington: GPO, 1868.
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Executive Documents of the Senate.
40th Congress, 3rd Session. Washington: GPO, 1869.
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Executive Documents of the House of Representatives
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Massachusetts Department of Labor.
Thirteenth Annual Report on the Statistics of Labor
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“Memphis Riots and Massacres.” July 25, 1866.
Reports of the Committees of the House of Representatives.
39th Congress, 1st Session. Washington: GPO, 1866.
Miscellaneous Documents
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