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Legislative Acts/Legal Proceedings within the Richmond Whig and Public Advertiser.

Four pages of the Richmond Whig from March 8, 1867.
The actions of Freedmen in Alexandria encouraged other former enslaved to vote in elections.…

Liberty, and Equality Before The Law. : Proceedings of The Convention of The Colored People of VA., Held in The City of Alexandria, AUG. 2, 3, 4, 5, 1865.

Freedmen in Alexandria meet and demand the right to vote at the end of the United States Civil War.

Pamphlet.

Mass Convention of the Union Republican Party of Virginia

In the spring of 1867, Congress passed an act that required the former Confederate states to hold conventions, in which African Americans were…

Our Justification-Richmond Whig October 8, 1867.

Virginia Conservatives-former Whig and democratic party discuss how they could potentially manipulate Freedmen going into the Committee of Nine which…

Paul H. Bergeron. Editor.  From Francis H. Pierpont to President Andrew Johnson. Papers of Andrew Johnson. Volume 12, February-March 1867.  March 8, 1867. Knoxville: The University of Tennessee Press. 1995.; Schofield, John M. Annual Report of Brevet Major General J. M. Schofield, U. S. A., Commanding First Military District. 1866-1867.  October 5, 1867. Pamphlet. From Library of Congress. The John M. Schofield Papers, 1863-1891, Diaries And Journals Box 86. Reconstruction in Virginia: Correspondence and Memoranda. Division of Manuscripts. Library of Congress, Washington D.C
St. Mary's gazette March 14, 1867 Image 2.

St. Mary's Gazette stated that Freedmen in Alexandria believed they were entitled to vote in the prior election on March 5, 1867.

The Alexandria Gazette March 5, 1867.

The Alexandria Gazette depicted news of the March 2, 1867 meeting of Freedmen at the Lyceum in Alexandria to advocate for Freedmen's suffrage.

The Alexandria Gazette, November 26, 1869.

The Alexandria Gazette depicted the Radical Convention of 1869 in Richmond.

The daily phoenix. [volume], March 20, 1867, Image 1

The Daily Phoenix stated news about the March 5th Alexandria election. The newspaper conveyed information from other states and cities that supported…

The Debates and proceedings of the Constitutional convention of the state of Virginia,
assembled at the city of Richmond, tuesday, December 3, 1867: beign a full and complete report of the debates and proceedings of the convention, together with the reconstruction acts of Congress and those supplementary thereto, the order of the commander of the First military district assembling the convention, and the new constitution.
Official: W. H. Samuel, phonographic reporter

An account of the Virginia Constitutional Convention along with records of Virginia as the first military district.

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