An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866LSU Press, 2004 M10 1 - 192 páginas 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. |
Contenido
Introduction | 1 |
No Better Constitution | 19 |
There Is No Middle Ground | 28 |
We Are in Revolutionary Times | 43 |
Tomorrow Will Be the Bloodiest Day | 69 |
You Better Stay Home | 87 |
Go Away You Black Son of a Bitch | 97 |
For Gods Sake Dont Shoot Us | 107 |
Hurrah for Hell | 117 |
Go Home? | 126 |
The Rebels Have Control Here | 138 |
Postscript | 151 |
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An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866 James G. Hollandsworth Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866 James G. Hollandsworth Vista previa limitada - 2001 |
An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866 James G. Hollandsworth, Jr. Vista previa limitada - 2004 |
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