by Jenny Heckel
A Thesis Presented to The Graduate School of Clemson University ___________________________________________________
Remembering Meriwether:
White Carolinian Manipulation of the Memory of the Hamburg Massacre of 1876

“In the 1876 election, one marked by murder and outright fraud – the county where Hamburg was located ended up logging 2,000 more votes than it had registered voters, O’Bryant said – white Democrats took control of the South Carolina government.”
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