Sale 2503 - Printed & Manuscript African Americana, March 28, 2019

371 371 c   (RECONSTRUCTION.) [Gibbes, James G.; photographer.] Radical Members of the So. Ca. Legislature. Albumen photograph, 5 x 4 inches, on original plain mount, captioned in the negative, with large printed key titled “Lines from Left to Right” laid down on verso; minor wear including light creases in margins, 1-inch tear in photograph before mounting. [Columbia, SC, circa 1868] [600/900] Composite photograph of the members of South Carolina’s Reconstruction legislature. Fifty members of the Legislature were African-Americans. By the end of the 1870s virtually all had been replaced due to the poll taxes and gerrymandering as the era of segregation and disenfranchisement began. Among the men shown here is Joseph Hayne Rainey (lower right corner), later a United States Congressman. 372 c   (RECONSTRUCTION.) Carte-de-visite portrait of United States Senator Hiram Revels. Albumen photograph, 3 1 / 2 x 2 inches, on original plain mount; mount cropped to image along bottom edge, very light spotting in negative. Np, circa early 1870s [800/1,200] Hiram Rhodes Revels (1827-1901) became the first African-American in Congress when chosen to represent Mississippi in the Senate in 1870. He also served as a clergyman and college president. 372