Historical Document

Report of the Joint Select Committee on the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States (1872)

Report of the committee charged with investigating “the condition of affairs in the late insurrectionary states, so far as regards the execution of laws, and the safety of the lives and property of the citizens of the United States.”

The cover of the Report of the Joint Select Committee on the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States (1872). (Government Printing Office/University of Michigan.)