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Extract from the Reconstructed Constitution of the State of Louisiana ...

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC04597 Author/Creator: Place Written: Louisiana Type: Broadside Date: 1868 Pagination: 1 p. ; 61 x 48.5 cm. Order a Copy

Title continues, " ... With portraits of the Distinguished Members of the Convention & Assembly. A.D. 1868." Anti-Reconstruction broadside from Louisiana showing images of Black elected officials seated in the center of the broadside.

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