In 1871, the first tobacco factory in Winston was established and manufactured about 20,000 pounds of chewing tobacco in that year alone. Winston N.C., like Durham, experienced a rapid development of tobacco manufacturing. In 1868, for example, Durham had only one tobacco factory and by 1872 it had twelve. The pioneer of tobacco manufacturing in Winston was Hamilton Scales. By 1880 there were 126...
In 1871, the Governor of Mississippi, James Alcorn, was a member of the Centrist Party. The Centrist Party was a faction of the Republican Party emerging in the South at this time. The Centrists believed that it had to seize voting initiative and control the middle of the political spectrum. Centrists believed that the political disabilities imposed on former Confederates by the Reconstruction Act...
By 1870, southern black leaders were convinced that the black vote was worthless if black life and property rights were not respected. Outraged at the Republican Party's failure to protect their civil rights and promote blacks for office, many leaders debated withdrawing from the party at the Southern States Convention of Colored Men in 1871. The Convention called on the national government...
After the Civil War, there was a vast migration of Southerners to Northern States. Many parts of the South were ruined by the Civil War because most of the battles occurred in southern states. The population in the south decreased significantly by the end of the Civil War because of death and because many African-Americans left the south.<br />In order to raise the population, many southern...
Tunis G. Campbell-a black religious leader, justice of the peace, delegate to the Georgia state constitutional convention, and Georgia state senator-embodied the realization of what heights freed blacks could achieve in the post-war South. A representative of McIntosh, Liberty, and Tatnall counties, Campbell ardently advocated for laws promoting equal education, integrated jury boxes, and abolishment...
Black laborers were not the only group employed by whites to take on grueling plantation work. The Leigh plantation on St. Simon's Island off the Georgia coast had for several years employed a gang of Irish labourers to do the banking and ditching on the Island. Francis Butler Leigh, the white matriarch of the plantation, observed that she was surprised at how the Irishmen worked well and faithfully,...
Professor Waterhouse, of Washington University in St. Louis, sent a letter to Governor B.
Gratz Brown pushing for the passing of measures to ensure that Missouri could secure the
immigration of skilled artisans from Europe. Since France and other European nations were
demolished during the Franco-German War, many of the citizens of these countries began to
leave their...
On January 10, 1871, the Senate of the United States passed a decree that appointed five investigators to clarify the intents behind politically-driven outrages committed in the South. The investigators received a message on January 13, from President Ulysses S. Grant that contained reports of military officers, communications from Governors of States; and letters and petitions from private citizens....
Dr. William Ruffner, the Superintendent of Public Instruction for Virginia, published a report in Educational Journal of Virginia about the condition of the public school system in Virginia in 1871. Many problems plagued the public school system at the time, including necessary funding and the inclusion of African-Americans into the system. <br />The state did not have enough money to fund...
Sally Young Rambin's letter to her sister opened with an apology for her long silence and an excuse: Rambin had been extremely sick and had only been able to get out of bed for two weeks before she attempted to write to her sister on February 12, 1871. Rambin's illness was made worse by the doctor's inability to provide her with the medicine she needed. Rambin told her sister that the...