The Prostrate State; South Carolina Under Negro Government
Study done by James Shepherd Pike in about 1872-1874, published 1874. Pike's Wikipedia bio says this:
"President Abraham Lincoln appointed Pike to be minister to the Netherlands, where he fought Confederate diplomatic efforts and promoted the Union war aims from 1861 to 1866.[4] On returning to Washington in 1866, Pike resumed writing for the New York Tribune and also wrote editorials for the New York Sun.
Pike was an outspoken Radical Republican, standing with Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner and opposing President Andrew Johnson. Long before black suffrage became a major issue Pike had come to believe that the freed slaves must be given the vote. Pike in 1866–67 strongly supported Black suffrage and the disqualification of most ex-Confederates from holding office.[5]"
In Chapter XVII, The Frauds of the State Government, he lays out his outline of his study of the corruption and debt of the Negro government, AS REPORTED TO THE U.S. CONGRESS:
Chapter XVII, The Frauds of the State Government
There would seem to be no species of public fraud unknown to, and unpractised by, the men who have been in possession of the government of South Carolina since the close of the war.
A simple narrative of events, ABOUT WHICH THERE IS NO DISPUTE, [caps mine], is perhaps the briefest, as it is the most effectual, way of enabling the reader to form an unbiassed judgment upon the transactions that have occurred.
In what we have now to say, we draw largely from that authentic record, known as the " Report of the Joint Select Committee to inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the late Insurrectionary States, made to the two Houses of Congress, February 10, 1872"
From the mass of testimony presented in that report, and from the views of the majority and minority expressed therein, we extract what bears upon the case, aiming to eliminate every thing of a merely partisan character.
The principal frauds practised in South Carolina come under several heads, which we will treat separately. They are —
1. Those which relate to the increase of the State debt.
2. The frauds practised in the purchase of lands for the freedmen.
3. The railroad frauds.
4. The election frauds.
5. The frauds practised in the redemption of the notes of the Bank of South Carolina.
6. The census fraud.
7. The fraud in furnishing the legislative chambers.
8. General and legislative corruption.
"President Abraham Lincoln appointed Pike to be minister to the Netherlands, where he fought Confederate diplomatic efforts and promoted the Union war aims from 1861 to 1866.[4] On returning to Washington in 1866, Pike resumed writing for the New York Tribune and also wrote editorials for the New York Sun.
Pike was an outspoken Radical Republican, standing with Thaddeus Stevens and Charles Sumner and opposing President Andrew Johnson. Long before black suffrage became a major issue Pike had come to believe that the freed slaves must be given the vote. Pike in 1866–67 strongly supported Black suffrage and the disqualification of most ex-Confederates from holding office.[5]"
In Chapter XVII, The Frauds of the State Government, he lays out his outline of his study of the corruption and debt of the Negro government, AS REPORTED TO THE U.S. CONGRESS:
Chapter XVII, The Frauds of the State Government
There would seem to be no species of public fraud unknown to, and unpractised by, the men who have been in possession of the government of South Carolina since the close of the war.
A simple narrative of events, ABOUT WHICH THERE IS NO DISPUTE, [caps mine], is perhaps the briefest, as it is the most effectual, way of enabling the reader to form an unbiassed judgment upon the transactions that have occurred.
In what we have now to say, we draw largely from that authentic record, known as the " Report of the Joint Select Committee to inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the late Insurrectionary States, made to the two Houses of Congress, February 10, 1872"
From the mass of testimony presented in that report, and from the views of the majority and minority expressed therein, we extract what bears upon the case, aiming to eliminate every thing of a merely partisan character.
The principal frauds practised in South Carolina come under several heads, which we will treat separately. They are —
1. Those which relate to the increase of the State debt.
2. The frauds practised in the purchase of lands for the freedmen.
3. The railroad frauds.
4. The election frauds.
5. The frauds practised in the redemption of the notes of the Bank of South Carolina.
6. The census fraud.
7. The fraud in furnishing the legislative chambers.
8. General and legislative corruption.
What Foner, has done, along with Communists like Sol Auerbach, alias James S. Allen (I have posted a topic on his Communist pamphlet of 1932) is a crime so enormous that God has condemned it. Lying about history is an abomination. And for the intent and purpose for which he and others do it, it is doubly contemptuous.
One last thing here, Foner and the other 'revisionists' thinking as they do that American blacks are unable to distinguish truth from fiction, AND NEED TO RELY ON SOME TYPE OF AUTHORITY FOR THEIR REALITY, and that they would not be able to understand Pike's study anyway, figured they could get away with it. There is no black today who believes Reconstruction was a simply horrible event in U.S. history. These are the blacks who tear down statues of Robert E. Lee, a man whose boots they are not qualified to polish.
I believe that some or most of the statute topplers were white brainwashed marxists.
Sorry, not a defense. Not even a good excuse.