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(CIVIL RIGHTS.) RECONSTRUCTION—KU KLUX KLAN.
Plan of the
Contemplated Murder of John Campbell
Pictorial wood engraved broadside, 15
3
⁄
4
x
9
7
⁄
8
inches; creases where folded; tiny professional repair at the conjunction of the folds;
matted
Np, 1871
[4,000/6,000]
A rare broadside account of the kidnapping, attempted lynching and subsequent release of John
Campbell. Campbell, a white man from Moore County, North Carolina had run afoul of the
local Ku Klux for his Republican views. The engraving shows a group of outlandishly cowled
figures surrounding Campbell, who is on his knees and about to be lynched. This image was
engraved from a photograph taken on the spot. Another engraving titled “The Planning of the
contemplated murder of John Campbell” exists, and shows the group in a slightly different set-
ting in a wooded area.
RARE
.
OCLC GIVES THREE LOCATIONS FOR THIS PIECE
:
DUKE
,
EAST CAROLINA
,
AND THE HUNTINGTON LIBRARY
.
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(CIVIL RIGHTS—KLAN, KU KLUX.) POLLARD, EDWARD A.
The Key to
the Klux. Individual Report and Revelation by Edward A. Pollard of the
Conditions of the South.
32 pages, removed; some signs of “bark” to the spine; paper
lightly and evenly toned.
[Np, Richmond?, 1872]
[600/800]
The author of this pamphlet, Edward A. Polard (1831-1872) was a Virginian, who wrote a
number of pieces on the South, The Virginia Tourist and a Southern History of the War. He
argues that the Ku Klux, White Camelia, or The Brotherhood as it was sometimes called was
not in any way political. That its prime purpose was to thwart the progress and assimilation of
the Negro. He does not in any way defend the Klan, but rather as a patriotic Southerner and
defender of “The Lost Cause” condemns the Ku Klux for its Lynch Law and excesses.
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