Historical Newspaper: The Experiment of Negro Suffrage and Its Results
Subject
Hastings Gantt
Title
Historical Newspaper: The Experiment of Negro Suffrage and Its Results
Date
11/24/1882
Type
Historical Newspaper
Description
Note: Some language may be offensive to readers. This article appears in the second and third columns on the first page.
Chronicling America presents a November 24, 1882 article, writer unknown, from the The Weekly Union Times newspaper, which offered a perspective calling into question whether Black freedmen could "use their political power judiciously for the common good." The writer provides an account of how Hastings Gantt - a formerly enslaved man from Beaufort, South Carolina turned businessman and landowner - was involved in corruption and taking bribes.
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Chronicling America presents a November 24, 1882 article, writer unknown, from the The Weekly Union Times newspaper, which offered a perspective calling into question whether Black freedmen could "use their political power judiciously for the common good." The writer provides an account of how Hastings Gantt - a formerly enslaved man from Beaufort, South Carolina turned businessman and landowner - was involved in corruption and taking bribes.
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Publisher
Library of Congress - Chronicling America (The Weekly Union Times, SC)
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“Historical Newspaper: The Experiment of Negro Suffrage and Its Results,” Project Reconstruction, accessed May 1, 2024, https://projectreconstructionus.com/items/show/909.