Benjamin Franklin Randolph was a Black senator in South Carolina and was assassinated on October 16, 1868. Randolph held his position during the Reconstruction and was murdered at Cokesburg in Abbeville, South Carolina. Randolph was born in Kentucky in 1820 and was the child of free African Americans. He moved with his family to Ohio […]

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