Excerpt from The Early Period of Reconstruction in South Carolina: A Dissertation Submitted to the Board of University Studies of the Johns Hopkins University in Conformity With the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy

Perhaps no part of South Carolina history is looked upon by the people of the state as of greater significance than the era of reconstruction. The interest which attaches to the period and the oft-expressed desire that its events be adequately treated in an historical manner, led the writer to undertake this monograph. What is here offered is an installment of a projected history, already in preparation, of the entire reconstruction movement in South Carolina.

The purpose of this monograph is to show by a simple narration of the facts:

1. The direct effect of the Civil War upon the state economically and in political sentiment, and the spirit in which the white people of the state accepted the first attempts at reconstruction.

2. The chief features of the constitution of 1865, the political sentiment displayed in the convention, and legislation immediately following.

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