Month: November 2021

p 237-8 What did Albion mean by “I am going to find out if North Carolina is our future”?

p. 239-40 US military, uncomfortably balanced between the roles of helping and that of occupying protectorate. No masters. No slaves. An abundance of animosity, accompanied by alarming episodes of brutality toward white and liberated slaves. What was the position of governor Holden on carpet beggars and “the weaker race”?

p. 241-44 Is there a parallel between Emma and Albion’s relationship and that between the white Northerner migrants and the black North Carolina residents?

p.44-46 What was Albion’s idea about how the Freedmen’s Bureau was supposed to work?

p. 247-8 What did the North Carolina legislature’s first post war session achieve?

249-50 What was Albion’s political debut ? His political speech at Coble’s Schoolhoue.

250-254 What happened to Albion in the North?

255-56 What was the outcome of the Conference?

257-58. How did he feel about working on the commission to rewrite North Carolina’s entire civil code?

p.215/17: Even rich people suffer losses in wars. Humanizing Brown while presenting him reading Southern History of the War.

The lost cause; a new southern history of the war of the Confederates
AuthorPollard, Edward Alfred, 1831-1872
PublishedNew York, E. B. Treat & co., Baltimore, Md., L. T. Palmer & co.; [etc., etc.] 1866.

p. 218/20: Understanding Republicanism through Crapo’s eyes

p. 221/22 Charles Sumner and the duel between the Nation and the States

p. 223/4 The defeat of the Michigan reconstruction constitution. The role of the press.

p. 225 The impact of inheritance.

p. 226 The Republican nomination of Ulysses S. Grant

p. 227/30 Circuit Judge Brown

p. 231/32 Failed bid for federal judgship

p. 232-35 Failed political career. Saratoga Springs in the near future

https://duqlawblogs.org/duqlawbookclub/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/GetPDF.pdf

 Volume: 1866   Issue: 04/28   Page Range: 0269ad-0269ad 

OUTSIDE OF THE GALLERIES OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES DURING THE PASSAGE OF THE CIVIL RIGHTS BILL.

p. 193 Harlan, like his father, regarded this institution with ambivalence verging on distaste. What is? (expressing my lack of ambivalence about Harlan’s)

p. 194. How did Harlan explain his 1864 support for the Democratic candidate to the presidency?

p. 195. What was Harlan’s paramount support for the cause of the Union?

p. 196. How did Harlan explain his military resignation within a month after Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation?

p. 197. For whom did Harlan have “real affection” – in the words of his lovely wife Mallie (probably she shared the same affection as her husband).

p. 198. Emancipating the family slaves could have been an outcome – as the author points out, but not for Harlan.

p. 199. For any of us a purse, a piece of furniture, clothes, or why not a car or a house would be a “most fortunate purchase,” but not for Mallie. What was she fondly remembered as a most fortunate purchase towards the end of the Civil War?

p. 200/6 Who is Palmer, and how do you explain that though on the side of progress, he ended up with a ruined military career, while Harlan’s star continued to rise?

p. 205 George Robertson, a former law professor and now a member of the judiciary held that Palmer’s actions having taken place before the Thirteenth Amendment remained illegal. Is that how constitutional amendments ought to be applied?

p. 207/210 What was remarkable about the Bristow/Harlan partnership?

p.211/13 What helped Harlan’s Republican conversion? What type of conversion was it, anyway? “equal before the law,” but “social equality can never exist between the two races in Kentucky.”