Pinchback

Finally old Pinchback dies and when he buried de lightnin' come and split de grave and de coffin wide open.

The career of Pinchback sheds additional light upon this period.

Pinchback maintained that offices should be awarded with reference not to race, but to education and general ability.

It was a desperate undertaking, and the story of the race, as told by Governor Pinchback himself, reads like a romance.