Dan Price letter 1868 December 21

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Dan Price letter 1868 December 21

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Letter from Dan Price, a white Alabaman who taught freed African-American students, to his Congressman, Charles Wilson Pierce, about the vicious activities of the Ku Klux Klan in Sumter County, Alabama, in 1868.

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University Libraries Division of Special Collections, The University of Alabama

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Price, Dan, 1957 March 7-

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Dan Price was a white Republican who taught in African-American schools during the Reconstruction era in Alabama. His situation became so bad in Livingston and Sumter County that he moved to Meridian, Mississippi, taking many freemen (and thus, much of the cheap farm labor) with him. Local white farmers deputized a former slave, Adam Kennard, and sent him to retrieve the freemen. In 1871, Kennard was captured near Meridian and whipped by masked men. Kennard said that Price was the leader of the ...

Ku Klux Klan (19th century)

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