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| Field name | Value |
|---|---|
| Collection Reference Number | GLC09090 |
| From Archive Folder | Documents Relating to the 1860s |
| Title | To Davie Jeems (a KKK threat) |
| Date | ca. 1868 |
| Document Type | Correspondence |
| Content Description | Threatening a Black office-holder. "Notice/To Jeems, Davie, you must be a good boy...at night I am a Ku Klux sent here to look after you and all the rest of the radicals and make you know your place. I have got my eye on you every day...[T]ell Platt Madison we have, a Box, For him and you. We nail all, radicals up in Boxes and send them away to KKK. There is 200 000 ded men returned to this country to make you and all the rest of the radicals good Democrats and vote right with the white people...no nigger is safe unless he joins the Democratic Club...give all your Friends timely warning." Note on verso in reference to the write: "This man was elected in April to the Sheriffs Office of the County of Lincoln [Georgia]. Similar threats have prevented all the other Republican officers from taking their commissions." |
| Subjects | Ku Klux Klan African American History Election Republican Party Democratic Party Government and Civics Reconstruction |
| Theme | African Americans; Government & Politics; Reconstruction |
| Sub-collection | The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945 |
| Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
| Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |
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