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Collection Reference Number GLC08463
From Archive Folder Documents Relating to the 1860s 
Title Black republican and office-holder's journal. [No. 4 (September 1865)]
Date September 1865
Author Jumbo, Pluto (fl. 1865)  
Document Type Newspapers and Magazines
Content Description Racist newssheet from New York, handwritten in dialect ridiculing republicanism, reconstruction and the freed slaves. Referring to President Andrew Johnson's reconstruction policies, states "De party must be up and stirring to head off Johnson's reconstruction. De highest price will be paid for new radical lies to be dewoted to dat loyal purpus."
Subjects Freemen  Slavery  African American History  Propaganda  Republican Party  President  Reconstruction  
People Johnson, Andrew (1808-1875)  
Place written New York, New York
Theme Reconstruction; African Americans; Government & Politics; Slavery & Abolition
Sub-collection The Gilder Lehrman Collection, 1860-1945
Copyright The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
Module Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945