[RECONSTRUCTION - LABOR]. A group of documents and pamphlets related to Freedmen, especially labor issues including prison contract labor, comprising:

State of South Carolina. District. Article of Agreement. [South Carolina], 1865. 7 15/16 x 9 3/4 in. printed document. Uncompleted work contract for the "Freedmen and Women of [blank] plantation." -- Agency for the Introduction of White Labor. Petersburg, VA: Jones & Co., 1865. A labor agency's letter advertising their rates on "white labor," specifically emigrants: "We can furnish any nation: Germans, Swiss, Swedes, English, Irish, Scotch." -- American Bible Union. New York: Manhattan Engraving Co., [1872]. 7 3/16 x 4 1/2 in. partly-printed certificate completed in manuscript. Illustrated with an engraving of Liberty releasing a supplicating Black man from his chains. The note reads: "This is to Certify that Phenie Dunnarnd has collected for the American Bible Union, $1.65 to give the Sacred Scripture to the Freedmen of America." -- Contract States of South Carolina, Richland County. Columbia, SC, 16 February 1881. 8 3/8 x 9 11/16 in. partly printed document completed in manuscript. A prison labor contract between Thomas J. Lipscomb, Superintendent of the South Carolina Penitentiary, and prominent South Carolinian Robert I. Pringle for the hire of "one hundred seventy five able bodied male convicts, for digging phosphate rock," for the "sum of ten Dollars per capita per month." -- Together, 4 documents, condition generally very good, old creases and occasional toning.

[With:] Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands. [Washington, D.C.]: N.p.,1866. House of Representatives, 39th Congress, 1st Session, Ex. Doc. No. 120. RARE: OCLC locates 6 copies. -- Bureau of Freedmen and Refugees [To accompany bill H.R. No. 598.] [Washington, D.C.]: N.p., 1868. House of Representatives, 40th Congress, 2d Session, Report No. 30. -- ADAMS, Francis Colburn (1850-1891). The Washers and Scrubbers. The Men Who Robbed Them. Washington, D.C.: Judd & Detweiler, 1878. 2 copies. RARE: OCLC locates only microform and digital copies. -- Constitution, By-Laws and Rules of Order of the Anderson County Farmers' Alliance Co-Operative Association. Palestine, TX: East Texas News Office, 1886. RARE: OCLC locates no copies. -- Together, 5 pamphlets, all FIRST EDITION, 8vo, condition generally very good, disbound.

Collection of Tom Charles Huston