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The Testimony of Henry Adams, Freedman: Hope, Terror, and Exodus in the Post-Civil War South

The Testimony of Henry Adams, Freedman: Hope, Terror, and Exodus in the Post-Civil War South

Adams, Henry
Hahn, Steven

Hardcover

Biographies GeneralBlack American HistoryCivil War Period (1850-1877)

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 1598538365
ISBN13: 9781598538366
Publisher: Library of America
Published: Feb 3 2026
Pages: 286
Weight: 1.05
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.30
Language: English
A FORGOTTEN EPISODE FROM THE ERA OF RECONSTRUCTION: An extraordinary American hero travels to the nation's capital to tell an unforgettable story of violence, resistance, and social action in the post-Civil War South.

For Black History Month, the never-before-published testimony with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Steven Hahn.

In March 1880 a committee of the U.S. Senate investigating the ongoing Negro Exodus from the South heard two days of testimony from an extraordinary American. A freedman, former soldier, laborer, faith healer, political activist, and sometime undercover government operative, Henry Adams was one of the leaders of the exodus movement in Louisiana. In his exchanges with the senators and his written testimony, Adams chronicles:

  • the nightmarish violence and insidious economic exploitation inflicted upon the freedpeople by the very men who held us slaves
  • the defiant Black resistance of voters determined to go to the polls in the face of systemic terrorism
  • his work with the committee, a secret group of workingmen who sought to learn the true condition of our race throughout the South.

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