The Prostrate State: South Carolina Under Negro Government

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A hardcover book titled The Prostrate State: South Carolina Under Negro Government with worn red cover. The cover has no markings, front, back, or spine. Copyright 1873. The interior cover has a stamp in red ink for the [ROOMS OF THE / Y.M.C.A.] in Richmond, Virginia. The text on the title page reads [THE / PROSTRATE STATE: / SOUTH CAROLINA UNDER NEGRO GOVERNMENT. / BY / JAMES S. PIKE, / LATE MINISTER OF THE UNITED STATES AT THE HAGUE. / NEW YORK: / D. APPLETON AND COMPANY, / 549 & 551 BROADWAY, / 1874.]. The volume opens with a preface dated [New York, Oct., 1873], that begins, "The following pages were written in Soth Carolina, during the session of the Legislature, in the months of February and March, 1873. They take their coloring from the scenes by which the writer was surrounded.

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