Letter

The collection contains a letter from Dan Price, a white Alabaman who taught freed African-American students, to his Congressman, Charles Wilson Pierce, about the vicious activities of the Ku Klux Klan in Sumter County, Alabama. Price describes - in horrific detail - the attacks by the Ku Klux Klan on 5th and 7th of December in 1868 against a doctor in Sumter County, Alabama. According to Price, the doctor's only 'crime' was that he was a 'radical' (i.e., a Unionist Republican). After assaulting the doctor's mother-in-law and son (the doctor, his wife and two children having escaped), the Klan set fire to the house. Price explains to Pierce that the doctor lost everything except the clothes on his back and pleads with Pierce to find some sort of employment for the doctor as a loyal Unionist - over Democrats.