Title: Aiken County : the only South Carolina County founded during Reconstruction /
Authors: Vandervelde, Isabel.
Publisher: Reprint Co.,
Year: 1999
Subjects: Genealogy.; Genealogy.; Aiken County (S.C.) History.; Aiken County (S.C.) Genealogy.; Aiken County (S.C.) Biography.
Abstract: "This study of the only county in South Carolina founded in 1871, during Reconstruction, has an educational aim to present a frank report of a trying time which has been covered up. . . . Nowhere in South Carolina can local scholars of history find an in depth look at the kind of history every student, black and white, should have available. ¶ "Americans need to look again at the black men of Reconstruction politics, their families, and their uphill battle against violence and prejudice"--Pref., p. xi.