Amos Drane (born 1811 or 1812 - ?) was a delegate to Mississippi's 1868 Constitutional Convention representing Madison County, Alabama.[1][2] He was one of 16 African American delegates at the constitutional convemtion.[3]

According to a newspaper brief, he had been owned as a slave by Maj. Drane. It states Alfred Handy, a state legislator, was his half-brother.[4]

Eric Foner documents him per Richard L. Hume as owning substantial property and advocating for a National Union Republican party. He was opposed to restrictions on Confederates voting.[5]

He was a candidate for the Mississippi House of Representatives.[6]

In 1871, he was one of the incorporators of the Wesley Chapel Methodist Episcopal Church.[7]

Testimony about election issues included a report that a mob attacked him for asking questions of a Captain Pratt at a courthouse meeting and the sheriff took him into custody to safeguard him.[8]

Drane was part of the "Black and Tan" convention held in Jackson, Mississippi in January 1868. It was disparaged by Democrat and Confederate aligned newspaper accounts.[9]

He and other Republican politicians were lampooned and disparaged in the Panola Star newspaper.[9]

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References

  1. ↑ "Mississippi Official and Statistical Register". April 4, 1904 – via Google Books.
  2. ↑ "List of 1868 Convention Delegates". Clarion-Ledger. January 8, 1868. p. 1 – via newspapers.com.
  3. ↑ Span, Christopher M. (April 1, 2012). From Cotton Field to Schoolhouse: African American Education in Mississippi, 1862-1875. UNC Press Books. ISBN 9781469601335 – via Google Books.
  4. ↑ "Canton Mail, January 2, 1875 – Against All Odds".
  5. ↑ Freedom's Lawmakers by Eric Foner Louisiana State University Press (1996) page 65
  6. ↑ House, United States Congress (April 4, 1869). "House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d Session-49th Congress, 1st Session" – via Google Books.
  7. ↑ "Laws of the State of Mississippi". Richard C. Langdon. April 4, 1871 – via Google Books.
  8. ↑ Elections, United States Congress Senate Committee on Privileges and (April 4, 1877). "Mississippi: Testimony as to Denial of Elective Franchise in Mississippi at the Elections of 1875 and 1876: Taken Under the Resolution of the Senate of December 5, 1876". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
  9. 1 2 Society, Mississippi Historical (April 4, 1913). "Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society" – via Google Books.


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