Lucy McMillan, a Former Slave in South Carolina, Testifies About White
Violence, 1871 feels like a communication/question testimony that occurs in communities for
point of views on different classified subject matters. This document does indeed originate from
an excerpt from Testimony Taken by the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of
Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States (Washington 1872) Because it stands as a creation of a
group venture of a committee from the U.S. Congress, there is no singular identifiable author as
a “face”. Thus the identifiable figure taken from these testimonies is really people who are asked
to be involved in thus testimony; with this excerpt displaying information from the answers of
Lucy McMillan. This document of a testimony excerpt references subtly the climate of American culture a
decade plus after the end of the American Civil War and the demise of American slavery. Even
without viewing the story in full, the title of the document reveals that it partakes in a post-
slavery/post-Civil War threshold of American History with a former slave being asked questions
in the document. This document excerpt from the full papers of testimony involves collecting the
experience of multiple witnesses on behavior; that stands now as acts of purposeful hate and
violence: against just freed African Americans, anti-slavery supporters like radical Republicans
and critiques of such acts against them. While
Violence, 1871 feels like a communication/question testimony that occurs in communities for
point of views on different classified subject matters. This document does indeed originate from
an excerpt from Testimony Taken by the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of
Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States (Washington 1872) Because it stands as a creation of a
group venture of a committee from the U.S. Congress, there is no singular identifiable author as
a “face”. Thus the identifiable figure taken from these testimonies is really people who are asked
to be involved in thus testimony; with this excerpt displaying information from the answers of
Lucy McMillan. This document of a testimony excerpt references subtly the climate of American culture a
decade plus after the end of the American Civil War and the demise of American slavery. Even
without viewing the story in full, the title of the document reveals that it partakes in a post-
slavery/post-Civil War threshold of American History with a former slave being asked questions
in the document. This document excerpt from the full papers of testimony involves collecting the
experience of multiple witnesses on behavior; that stands now as acts of purposeful hate and
violence: against just freed African Americans, anti-slavery supporters like radical Republicans
and critiques of such acts against them. While