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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Life of Thomas," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Freedmen during the War," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Reconstruction, pp. 69-74, 147-151, 349, 350, 378; Burgess," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Reconstruction," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Freedmen's Bureau Bill, 1866," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Destruction and Reconstruction" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reconstruction," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "History of Alabama," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ruin and Reconstruction of the Southern States," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "each had done much good, all was as nothing to what God was doing. The hand of God was seen in the stubborn and persistent reluctance of the negro to make contracts and go to work; God had taught the 8,000,000 arrogant and haughty whites that they were dependent upon the freedme...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Solid South," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "preacher, looked after negro contracts. A negro was not allowed to make his own contract, but it must be drawn up before Buckley. When a negro broke his contract, Buckley always decided in his favor, and avowed that he would sooner believe a negro than a white man. His delight w...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "If you attempt to put that negro on the train, he said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The officers were trying to take him to Tuscumbia for trial. Rugg thought the Bureau should try him, and said," }, { "from": "human", "value": "These men [the negroes] ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The South," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "and they sent him to Congress in 1868 to get the land for them. He told them that they had a better right to the land than the masters had." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Your work made this country what it is, and it is yours." }, { "from": "human", "val...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Solid South," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "History of the Negro Race in America, Vol. II, p. 410. August was a month in which there was little money-making among the negroes. It was vacation time, between the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Race Traits and Tendencies," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "History of the Negro Race, Vol. II, pp. 403-410; Fred Douglass," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Life and Times, Ch. XIV; Ho. Mis. Doc., No. 16, 43d Cong., 2d Sess.; Du Bois," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Souls of Black Folk ; the various reports of ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Up from Slavery," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Chicago to Mobile, $20,000." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Lynching" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "White and Black, pp. 131, 383; Thomas," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The American Negro, p. 240; Washington," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Future of the American Negro, pp. 25-27, 55; _DeBow's Review_, 1866; Slater Fund Trustees, Occasional Papers...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Select Statutes. The Alabama representatives all took the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Reconstruction, pp. 191, 192; G. O. No. 2, 3d M. D., April 3, 1867. For criticism, Burgess," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Reconstruction, pp. 112-122; Dunning," ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "I, ---- ----, do solemnly swear (or affirm), in the presence of Almighty God, that I am a citizen of the State of Alabama; that I have resided in said State for ---- months, next preceding this day, and now reside in the county of ---- in said State; that I am twenty-one years o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reconstruction," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Solid South," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Solid South," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Solid South" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Solid South, pp. 48, 49. In his first report Meade estimated that the constitution failed of ratification by 8114 votes (Herbert," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Solid South," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alabama," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Eutaw cases," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Future of the American Negro, pp. 11, 112, 136) thinks it unfortunate that the native whites did not make stronger efforts to control the politics of the negro, and prevent him from falling under the control of unscrupulous aliens. But any attempt to influence the negro vote...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Solid South, p. 39; Herbert," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Political History in" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Memorial Record of Alabama," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Briefly, we may regard the entire ten unreconstructed southern states,...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reconstruction, pp. 249, 250. The last assertion refers to such statements as those of Secretary McCulloch and the Postmaster-General in regard to the character of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "See McCulloch," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Men and ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Solid South," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Solid South," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He had spoken at a meeting of moderate reconstructionists in Mobile, had presided over the Kelly meeting where the riot occurred, and was believed to be in favor of moderate measures. He wrote a letter to the president of the convention, advising moderation and criticising certa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Campaign of 1867, Vol. I, p. 107. In striking contrast were the speeches of such white men as B. W. Norris and A. C. Felder, who undertook to persuade the negroes that Reconstruction was the remedy for all the ills that affected humanity. McPherson's scrapbook," }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Political Conflict in America," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Clarke County" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Solid South, p. 45. A partial list of aliens as described by a northern correspondent: A. J. Applegate of Wisconsin; Arthur Bingham of Ohio and New York; D. H. Bingham of New York, who had lived in the state before the war, an old man, and intensely bitter in his hatred of south...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "; W. C. Ewing of Baine County," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "a bitter Radical; W. R. Jones of Covington, had been barbarously murdered in" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "History of Alabama, p. 203; _N. Y. World_, Nov. 11, 1867; Owen," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Official and Statistical Register," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Solid South," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Constitution (so-called) of the State of Alabama, 1868. The president of the convention of 1875 said," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "What is called the present constitution of the state of Alabama is a piece of unseemly mosaic, composed of shreds and patches gathered...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Solid South," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Solid South ; Beverly," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Alabama" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Official Journals of the United States Government." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Address to the Laboring Men of Alabama stated in part," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "If you fail to vote and the constitution fails to be ratified, your right to vote hereafter closes and all participation on your part in the administration of the laws of the state ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Respectfully, D. G. JOHNSON," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Registrar District No. 1." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "We had, he said," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "were" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Persuasion and arguments deterred the blacks from voting; 20 whites voted of the 1500 who registered. 6. _Coosa._ Two discharges; one-third of the whites voted. 7. _Montgomery._" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ostracis...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "C on the ballot of a negro and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "W" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reconstruction," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Reconstruction, p. 340; Foulke," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Life of Morton," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "History Union League Club of New York, pp. 6-9;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Chronicle of Philadelphia Union League," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Chronicle of Philadelphia Union League, pp. 5-8; Bellows," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Un...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alabama, p. 246; Herbert," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Solid South," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "That the Union League is the right arm of the Union Republican party of the United States, and that no man should be initiated into the League who does not heartily indorse the principles and policy of the Union Republican party. Herbert," }, { "from": "gpt", "value"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Documents relating to Reconstruction," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alabama, pp. 246, 247; Lester and Wilson," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Ku Klux Klan," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Solid South, p. 45. One Wash Austin, a Democratic negro, was attacked by a mob, pursued, and when he reached home his wife called him" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Political Conflict in America," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Irvin Hauser is the damned...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Documents relating to Reconstruction," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ku Klux Klan," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alabama Manual and Statistical Register," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Capitol" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Annexation of West Florida to Alabama," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Ruin and Reconstruction of the Southern States," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Great South." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Solid South," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The South: Industrial, Financial, and Political Condition," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Twenty-eight Years in Wall Street," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Ruin and Reconstruction," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Northern Alabama, p. 52; Final Report of the Committee of the Alabama and Chattanooga Bondholders, London, 1876; McClure," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The South," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Northern Alabama," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Railroads and Navigation, in" }, { "from": "human", "value": "Memorial Record of Alabama, Vol. II, pp. 322-323; Martin," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Internal Improvements in Alabama, pp. 72-77...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Solid South," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Solid South," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Southern States, p. 157; Report of the House Railroad Investigation Committee, 1871; Herbert," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Solid South, pp. 52, 53. Colonel Herbert says that the Alabama and Chattanooga officials _demanded_ the $2,000,000 and received it." }, { ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "But the lower house now had a Democratic majority. Herbert," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Solid South," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Southern States, p. 158. April 3, 1871, Smith wrote," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "I admit that if I had attended strictly to the indorsement and issue of these bonds, that all this never would have occurred. Herbert," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Sol...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alabama must and will be ruled by whites.... We will not pay a single dollar of the infamous debt, piled upon us by fraud, bribery, and corruption, known as the 'bond swindle' debt. Let the bondholders take the railroads." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Internal Improvements, p. 70; Auditor's Report, 1869; Acts of Dec. 30, 1869, Acts of Ala., 1868, pp. 487, 494. The South and North road was merely an expansion of" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "The Mountain Railroad Company," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "General Forrest, p. 362; Wyeth," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Life of General Nathan Bedford Forrest," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Alabama, p. 278; Acts of Ala., _passim_;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Northern Alabama, p. 737; Brown," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Alabama, p. 291; Herbert," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Solid South," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "History of Education in Alabama," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "the fault of the" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "who" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The new system has not only administrative, but full legislative, powers concerning all matters having reference to the common school and public educational interests of the state. It cannot be destroyed nor essentially changed by legislative authority." } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "He called on me to explain why I said unkind things about his being candidate for president of the Alabama University, and I said, 'Mr. Lakin, you and I are near neighbors, and I don't want to have much to do with you--not much; but I think this: didn't you try to be president o...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The Reconstruction University," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Blue College" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Southern States," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Southern States," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Race Problems," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The South," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Southern States, p. 169; Report of the Joint Committee on Outrages, 1868. In Crenshaw, Butler, and Chambers counties some schools existed for a year or more until teachers of bad character were elected. Then the neighborhood roughs burned the school buildings. Neither Cloud nor ...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Future of the American Negro and" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Up from Slavery ; W. H. Thomas's" }, { "from": "human", "value": "American Negro ; P. A. Bruce's" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Plantation Negro as a Freeman" }, { "from":...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "managed the department with" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "he said. Speed had not found it a" } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A History of Methodism, p. 670; Smith," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Life and Times of George F. Pierce" }, { "from": "human", "value": "History of Methodism in the United States," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Anti-Slavery Struggle and Trium...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "History of the Muscle Shoals Baptist Association," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "History of the Presbyterian Churches," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Religious Forces, p. 281; Thompson," }, { "from": "human", "value": "History of the Presbyterian Churches, pp. 163, 171; Johnson," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "History of th...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "History of the Baptists in Alabama, p. 310; _Montgomery Advertiser_, Oct. 15, 1865; _N. Y. Times_, Oct. 22, 1865; George Brewer," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "History of the Central Association," }, { "from": "human", "value": "History of the Muscle Shoa...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Christ never died for the southern people at all; that he died only for the northern people." }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "History of Clarke County," }, { "from": "human", "value": "The Work of the Southern Baptists among the Negroes" }, { "from"...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Religious Forces," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "The character of his [Lakin's] speech was this: to teach the negroes that every man that was born and raised in the southern country was their enemy, that there was no use trusting them, no matter what they said,--if they said they were for the Union or anything else. 'No use ta...
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "Religious Forces," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "History of Methodism in Georgia and Florida ;" }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Life and Times of George F. Pierce," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "History of Methodism," } ]
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[ { "from": "human", "value": "A History of Southern Methodism, p. 670; Carroll," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Religious Forces, p. 263; Alexander," }, { "from": "human", "value": "Methodist Episcopal Church South," }, { "from": "gpt", "value": "Religious Forces," } ]