n a slave),
June 25th, 1850. I taught school in '69, 70, '71, and '72. Was a
candidate for the Legislature of Georgia in 1872. Attorney
General Amos J. Ackerman, of Grant's Cabinet, was in the
convention that nominated me, and he canvassed and voted for me.
In 1873 I went to Abbeville County, S.C., and taught '73, '74,
and '75. Was Deputy U.S. Marshall in 1876 and elected to the
South Carolina Legislature.

Mr. M.N. Work has discovered the following:

In the ten years 1876-1886, Negroes were elected to the South
Carolina Legislature as Democrats. The Columbia (South Carolina)
State in its issue of December 24, 1918, advised that an effort
be made to have Negroes enroll in Democratic precinct clubs and
participate in the primaries of the State along with white men.
As a precedent for this, it was pointed out that: "In 1876 when
the Democrats redeemed the State from misrule, they appealed to
the Negroes to join their party, and a minority of Negroes, more
numerous, perhaps than is generally supposed, wore the 'red
shirt.' Many of them did valuable service in behalf of
respectable government. During the ten years following that time,
until the primary election took the place of the convention
system in all but two or three of the counties, the Democratic
Negroes were given political recognition. From Barnwell,
Colleton, Orangeburg, and Charleston Negro Democrats were elected
to the legislature and in a number of counties other Negroes were
elected to such offices as coroner and county commissioner.

"With the extension of the primary system a racial line came to
be drawn in the Democratic organization and it was made very
nearly impossible for a Negro to participate in it. An exception
in the party law provided that Negroes who voted for General
Hampton in 1876 and who continued to vote the Democratic ticket
in succeeding years be allowed to vote in the primaries, but the
rules applying to these cases were in a form so rigid that they
reduced the Negro Democratic vote."[1]

FOOTNOTES:

[1] Columbia State, December 24, 1918.

A SUMMARY OF NEGRO MEMBERS OF SOME RECONSTRUCTION LEGISLATURES

[Transcriber's Note: The following two tables were published as
one large, wide table. They have been split into two tables, with
the first column repeat