Amos Drane

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]

See also

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. Society, Mississippi Historical (April 4, 1913). "Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society" – via Google Books.


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