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  • Description is exactly "(17) Testimony of former Colbert freedman George Taylor, then a resident of Madison County, that one night in January of 1869, while a sharecropper of George Duncan, Taylor was violently whipped, beaten and told to leave Colbert County by twelve men dressed in black gowns and wearing white "sack-cloth" on their heads, from "Testimony Taken by the Joint Select Committee to Enquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States, Alabama, Volume I, p. 148."

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This is a collection of articles related to the original Ku Klux Klan that formed just after the Civil War.

The Ku Klux Klan was founded in late May or June of 1866 by six bored ex-Confederates in Pulaski, Tennessee: J. Calvin Jones; Frank…
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