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Excerpts from "In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South" by John Hope Franklin and Loren Schweninger.

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@ Alabama Department of Archives and History, 624 Washington Avenue, Montgomery, Alabama 36130

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The passages describe the lives and contributions of three freedmen of the Rapier family. John H. Rapier, Jr., was a physician at the Freedmen's Hospital in Washington, D.C. John H. Rapier, Sr., a barber in Florence, Alabama, served as a voter registrar for Lauderdale County. James T. Rapier returned to Alabama after the Civil War and fought for the rights of African Americans, despite threats from the Ku Klux Klan and other opponents; he served in the United States House of Representatives from 1873 to 1875.
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2006 2006 00 00
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Keywords

  1. African Americans
  2. Alabama
  3. Civil Rights
  4. Freedmen
  5. Government
  6. Ku Klux Klan (19 Th Cent.)
  7. Lauderdale County (Ala.)
  8. Legislation
  9. Politics And Government
  10. Race Relations
  11. Rapier, James T., 1839 1883
  12. Rapier, John H., Jr
  13. Rapier, John H., Sr
  14. Reconstruction (U.S. History, 1865 1877)
  15. Republican Party (Ala.)
  16. Voter Registration

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