Project Gutenberg 2009-09-09 Public domain in the USA. 49 Pierson, Hamilton W. (Hamilton Wilcox) 1817 1888 Pierson, H. W. (Hamilton Wilcox) Pierson, Hamilton Wilcox 12032452 A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, with 'Statements' of Outrages upon Freedmen in Georgia Reading ease score: 75.4 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read. Produced by Bryan Ness, Stephanie Eason, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net. (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) "A Letter to Hon. Charles Sumner, with 'Statements' of Outrages upon Freedmen in Georgia" by Rev. H. W. Pierson, D.D. is a historical account written in the post-Civil War era, specifically around the late 1860s to early 1870s. This work focuses on the horrifying realities faced by freed African Americans in Georgia, detailing their struggles with violence and injustice in the aftermath of emancipation. It serves both as a personal testimony by the author and as a broader commentary on the social and political climate affecting freedmen in the Reconstruction South. The book comprises a poignant letter to Senator Charles Sumner, underscoring the severe and brutal treatment inflicted upon the freedmen by former slaveholders and groups like the Ku-Klux Klan. Through firsthand "statements" gathered from various individuals such as Cane Cook and Floyd Snelson, Pierson exposes the physical and psychological torment experienced by these individuals, including violence, intimidation, and economic exploitation. The author himself recounts his experiences as a pastor in Andersonville, where he witnessed and documented these outrages, ultimately advocating for the protection and redress of grievances for the oppressed freedmen against the backdrop of a government failing to prevent such injustices. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Ku Klux Klan (19th century) -- Georgia Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Georgia F206 Text Browsing: History - American Browsing: History - General Browsing: Politics 88265 88266 2024-10-12T18:01:55.170908 2023-09-13T08:26:59.226670 text/html text/html 84928 2021-01-05T12:48:05 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 31292 2021-01-05T12:48:05 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 143310 2024-10-12T18:02:01.884872 application/epub+zip 142742 2024-10-12T18:01:59.005889 application/epub+zip 88691 2024-10-12T18:01:57.694958 application/epub+zip 354961 2024-10-12T18:02:03.973884 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 343941 2024-10-12T18:02:01.041872 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 116744 2022-09-14T03:42:21.873811 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 78341 78119 2024-10-12T18:01:54.841909 2023-09-13T08:26:58.988673 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 78179 2021-01-05T12:48:05 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 29387 2021-01-05T12:48:05 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 20054 2024-10-12T18:02:04.098851 application/rdf+xml 25731 2024-10-12T18:01:58.238882 image/jpeg 4755 2024-10-12T18:01:57.965880 image/jpeg 139534 2024-10-12T18:01:55.179906 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog