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"Election Methods in the South" in THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW
December 1890
Courtesy of Cornell University Library, Making of America

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Photo of an excerpt from 'Election Methods in the South,' which appeared in THE NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW

Introducing his article on election methods in the South, former slave, union soldier, and U.S. congressman Robert Smalls condemns the corruption of the election process in South Carolina. His outrage is directed at the violence perpetrated by the Ku Klux Klan and rifle clubs and Southern democrats who he accuses of fraud.