02-14-201302-14-2013
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Skinner AuctionsMarlborough MA
February 14, 2013 10:00 AMCalender
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Ku Klux Klan, Seven Volumes:

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$150$150
Auction: Discovery - 2637MLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: February 14, 2013 10:00AM

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Ku Klux Klan, Seven Volumes:Testimony Taken by the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into The Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States. South Carolina [vols. I-III]; Mississippi [part one]; Georgia [part one]; Alabama [part three]; Miscellaneous; and Florida. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1872, all bound in uniform brown cloth bindings, heads worn, one binding with tears to head and spine; the complete set on the Ku Klux Klan conspiracy consisted of thirteen volumes.
The 42nd Congress formed this joint committee to investigate the reach of the Ku Klux Klan in the antebellum South. These books contain the copious and detailed testimony gleaned during the hearings. (7)
Estimate $200-300


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Keywords

Ku Klux Klan, Joint Select Committee, South Carolina, Mississippi, Alabama, Government Printing Office, Congress