Report of the Joint Select Committee to Inquire Into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, Made t, (Paperback)

This is Volume 2 of the report produced by the Joint Select Committee, presented to Congress in February 1872. The committee was formed to investigate the conditions in the former Confederate states during the Reconstruction era. The report details the findings of the committee's inquiry into the political, social, and economic conditions prevailing in these states following the Civil War, with a focus on civil rights and the impact of federal policies.

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