Gen Sherman on Negro Suffrage

Gen Sherman on Negro Suffrage

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)

U.S. Army General William Tecumseh Sherman, an active and successful Civil War military leader, is here quoted as doubtful that freed black slaves have the ability to exercise the franchise. He also suggests that a system of labor be established in the south, to compensate the former slaves, but assure the harvesting of crops and - therefore - the reconstruction of the southern economy.

The Walla Walla Statesman reports a summary of the postwar racial views of U.S. Army General William Tecumseh Sherman.

Gen Sherman

Walla Walla Statesman

Walla Walla W.T.: R.R. and S.G. Rees

1865-09-15

Speech in Chicago

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Vol. IV, No. 40, p. 1, col. F

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