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The Port Royal Experiment—Setting the Stage for Reconstruction, Part Two

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Ashley Webb

This is part two in a series. Edward Pierce, an agent to the Federal Government sent to visit Port Royal and the surrounding islands of South Carolina, wrote an in depth anthropological style report on the African American population abandoned … Continue reading →

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