Life after the Civil War In the following document, Klan Violence against Blacks, Elias Hill is describing the life of an African America post-emancipation. Mr. Hill is writing this letter to the Congressional Committee stating events that has occurred throughout the south and personally. On May 5th, Mr. Hill illustrates a scenario where he was laying in bed helpless while the Ku Klux Klan members terrorized his neighborhood. It comes to a point where the Klan members were profusely after the head of the Union League, a Republican organization that assisted African American exercise their right to vote, Elias Hill. Once they have seized him from his own home, they brutally beat Elias trying to obtain knowledge of what he knew of preaching