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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]

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