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Home » The Society’s Southern History Recommended Reading » 02 Histories of Specific Periods » 02.08 PERIOD HISTORIES, Political Reconstruction and the Struggle for Healing, from 1866 to 1884 » 02.08.19 Somers, Robert, The Southern States since the War 1870-1, published in 1871.

02.08.19 Somers, Robert, The Southern States since the War 1870-1, published in 1871.

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An unbiased account of conditions in the South after the war, written by an English visitor. He gives a concise description of the conditions of anarchy and radical despotism that accounted for the origins and rise of the Ku Klux Klan.

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