Episode 76
Season 5
Reconstruction was a pivotal time in American history that often gets overlooked, especially in genealogy. During episode 76, we’ll discuss how the law and shifting community dynamics affected our ancestors on both sides of the aisle and the resulting restrictions enacted as a response.
Episode 76 resource links
Watch
- Slavery by Another Name (PBS) – Available online for free until 2020
- 13th (Netflix)
Explore
- Confederate Applications for Presidential Pardons, 1865-1867 (Ancestry) and Confederate Amenesty Papers (Fold3) (Requires subscription)
- U.S., Pardons Under Amnesty Proclamations, 1865-1869 (Ancestry) (Requires subscription)
- Freedmen’s Labor in Coastal South Carolina
- Index of Crop Liens, James Island, Charleston County, SC, 1885 to 1894
- After Slavery: Race, Labor, and Politics in the Post-Emancipation Carolinas
- Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia
- Christian Recorder – Accessible Archives (Requires subscription)
Read
- The Education of Blacks in the South, 1860-1935 by James D. Anderson
- Harvesting Freedom: African American Agrarianism in Civil War Era South Carolina (Contributions in American History) by Akiko Ochiai
- Rehearsal for Reconstruction: The Port Royal Experiment by Willie Lee Rose
- Capitol Men: The Epic Story of Reconstruction Through the Lives of the First Black Congressmen by Phillip Dray
- Neither Carpetbaggers nor Scalawags: Black Officeholders During the Reconstruction of Alabama 1867-1878 by Dr. Richard Bailey