An Absolute Massacre : The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866
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Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
080713029X
ISBN-13
9780807130292
Publisher
Louisiana State University Press
Imprint
Louisiana State University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Oct 1st, 2004
Print length
192 Pages
Weight
286 grams
Dimensions
22.50 x 16.50 x 1.40 cms
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In the summer of 1866, racial tensions ran high in Louisiana as a constitutional convention considered disenfranchising former Confederates and enfranchising blacks. In An Absolute Massacre, James Hollandsworth, Jr offers a compelling look at the racial tinderbox that was the post-Civil War South.
In the summer of 1866, racial tensions ran high in Louisiana as a constitutional convention considered disenfranchising former Confederates and enfranchising blacks. On July 30, a procession of black suffrage supporters pushed through an angry throng of hostile whites. Words were exchanged, shots rang out, and within minutes a riot erupted with unrestrained fury. When it was over, at least forty-eight men- an overwhelming majority of them black- lay dead and more than two hundred had been wounded. In An Absolute Massacre, James G. Hollandsworth, Jr., examines the events surrounding the confrontation and offers a compelling look at the racial tinderbox that was the post-Civil War South.
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