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Ku Klux Klan to Charles Sumner

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC03979 Author/Creator: Ku Klux Klan Place Written: Culpeper, Virginia Type: Autograph letter signed Date: February 18, 1872 Pagination: 1 p. : Height: 24.9 cm, Width: 19.6 cm Order a Copy

The KKK order Senator Sumner, a noted abolitionist and advocate for African-American rights, to leave Washington, D. C. before 4 March 1872. The Klan declares "the KK are strong in this Section and bifor Long we will Sting the Yankee Farmer Living in this place as we want to clean the Yankee from this Land So take warning one and all".

Sumner, Charles, 1811-1874

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