Original sentence: " A "citizens' committee" ultimately "whipped more than a dozen freedmen in the area," drove two Yankee schoolteachers out of town, and conducted a "sting" to elicit a list of grievances from local freedmen, which was then handed over to whites." The following year, 1866, they called upon South Carolina governor James Orr with still more allegations of an imminent rising." The whites had reported "an increase in night religious services by blacks.Over the course of winter 1865 and into 1866 the whites of Williamsburg County imagined a forthcoming violent insurrection by the formerly enslaved people who were 57 percent of the state population
Edited sentence: " A "citizens' committee" ultimately "whipped more than a dozen freedmen in the area," drove two Yankee schoolteachers out of town, and conducted a "sting" to elicit a list of grievances from local freedmen, which was then handed over to whites, who again went into orbit." However, although a white lynch mob's actions were meant to be "psychologically comforting and reassuring" for them because of the belief that they were "defending [the] community from black brutality," the whites of Kingstree were insufficiently soothed." The whites were reportedly beside themselves because of "an increase in night religious services by blacks.Over the course of winter 1865 and into 1866 the whites of Williamsburg County were in hysterics over an imagined forthcoming violent insurrection by the formerly enslaved people who were 57 percent of the state population.The following year, 1866, they called upon South Carolina governor James Orr with still more allegations of an imminent rising