Carolina QuotesThe Southern legislatures which Mr. Johnson authorized set up saw the need for action no less than Congress did. It was a menace to society itself that the negroes should thus of a sudden be set free and left without tutelage or restraint. Some stayed very quietly by their old masters and gave no trouble, but most yielded, as was to have been expected, to the novel impulses and excitement of freedom and made their way to the camps and cities, where the blue-coated soldiers were, and the agents of the Freedman’s Bureau.
Woodrow Wilson Connected to the Carolinas
Source
pp. 18-19
- work
- A History of the American People, Vol. 9 (1902)
- year
- 1902
- locator
- pp. 18-19
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