Blacks and the Republican Party: South Carolina, 1863-1880
FAIN: FB-11662-73
Floyd J. Miller
Hiram College (Hiram, OH 44234-3409)
To study the Republican party in south Carolina from its beginnings on the Sea Island during the Civil War until approximately 1880. The focus will be on the nature of black-white relationships within the Republican party itself and also upon the role of the party as an agent of political socialization for the newly-emerging freedman.