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(KU KLUX KLAN TRIAL PROCEEDINGS, 1871)

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(KU KLUX KLAN TRIAL PROCEEDINGS, 1871)
A nice clean hard-bound copy of the very rare publication: "Proceeding in the Ku Klux Klan Trials at Columbia, S. C. in the United States Circuit, November Term, 1871", 836pp., Columbia, S. C.: Republican Printing Co., 1872. The violence of the Ku Klux Klan prompted passage of the Enforcement Act of 1870 and the Civil Rights Act of 1871, resulting in federal prosecutions of Klansmen for seizing the arms of freedmen, disrupting their political assemblies, and, in some cases, murdering the freedmen. The leading prosecutions were the Klan trials in South Carolina and the Grant Parish Massacre trials in Louisiana, leading to the Supreme Court decision in United States v. Cruikshank (1876). Light toning, overall very good.