A Case of Justice Unfulfilled in Reconstruction Vienna
Introduction: An Incident in Vienna, Virginia, January 1867 On 24 January 1867, Orrin E. Hine, a Vienna-based official of the U.S. government’s Freedmen’s Bureau, informed his superior of an attack on a formerly enslaved black woman, who Hine identified as “Harriet Follin”: “Captain, I have to report the following outrage… Continue reading