{"id":3021,"date":"2011-07-19T06:38:17","date_gmt":"2011-07-19T10:38:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/dukelibrariesrbmscl\/?p=3021"},"modified":"2011-07-20T13:04:21","modified_gmt":"2011-07-20T17:04:21","slug":"day-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.duke.edu\/rubenstein\/2011\/07\/19\/day-seven\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Days, 10 New Acquisitions: Day Seven"},"content":{"rendered":"

We\u2019re celebrating the beginning of a new fiscal year by reviewing some notable items and collections that arrived here at the RBMSCL in the past year. Get ready for announcements of many more exciting acquisitions in 2011-2012!<\/p>\n

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Carpet Bag Rule in Florida: The Inside Workings of the Reconstruction of Civil Government in Florida After the Close of the Civil War<\/a> by John Wallace, 1888<\/strong><\/p>\n

John Wallace (1842-1908) was born a slave in North Carolina, served in the Union army during the Civil War, and settled in Florida at the end of the war.\u00a0 He served in the Florida state House of Representatives and Senate during the Reconstruction era as a Republican, the longest political tenure of any black man in Florida; however, his book, published in 1888, is very critical of his fellow Republicans and Reconstruction rule.\u00a0 Doubts about Wallace’s authorship emerged quickly, both because of his race and his stance against the Republicans, but proof that the book is not by him remains unfound.<\/p>\n

From the John Hope Franklin Research Center for African and African American History and Culture<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For more photos of our new acquisitions (and other materials from the RBMSCL\u2019s collections), check out the \u201cFrom the RBMSCL\u2019s Collections<\/a>\u201d set on the Duke University Libraries\u2019 Flickr photostream.<\/p>\n

Post contributed by Will Hansen, Assistant Curator of Collections.<\/em><\/p>\n

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