The Testimony of Henry Adams, Freedman: Hope, Terror, and Exodus in the Post-Civil War South

A FORGOTTEN EPISODE FROM THE ERA OF RECONSTRUCTION: An extraordinary American hero travels to the nation's capital to tell an unforgettable story of violence, resistance, and social action in the post-Civil War South.

For Black History Month, the never-before-published testimony with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Steven Hahn.

In March 1880 a committee of the U.S. Senate investigating the ongoing “Negro Exodus” from the South heard two days of testimony from an extraordin...