In the tumultuous political climate of Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Wade Perrin, a Black man and a newly re-elected Republican member of the South Carolina House of Representatives, met a brutal end. On the evening of October 20, 1870, just one day after securing his second term, Perrin was assassinated by a group of white men associated with the Ku Klux Klan in the area of present-day Joanna, South Carolina, then known as Martin's Depot in rural Laurens County. His death was part of a wav
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