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An Absolute Massacre : the New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866
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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. On July 30, a procession of bla...
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 confronta.
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- English
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- Baton Rouge : LSU Press, 2004
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- 1 online resource (187 pages)
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- ISBNs
- 9780807151303, 0807151300, 9780807130292, 080713029X, 9780807130292
- OCLC
- ocn806206356
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-163) and index.
- Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Map -- Introduction -- 1: Give Us a Free State -- 2: No Better Constitution -- 3: There Is No Middle Ground. -- 4: We Are in Revolutionary Times -- 5: Not More Than Half a Million Will Survive -- 6: Please Instruct Me at Once by Telegram -- 7: To-morrow Will Be the Bloodiest Day -- 8: You Better Stay Home -- 9: Go Away, You Black Son of a Bitch -- 10: For God's Sake, Don't Shoot Us! -- 11: Hurrah for Hell -- 12: Can I Go Home? -- 13: The Rebels Have Control Here
- Postscript -- Bibliography -- Index
Subjects
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Louisiana.
- African Americans -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century.
- Riots -- Louisiana -- New Orleans -- History -- 19th century.
- Louisiana -- Politics and government -- 1865-1950.
- New Orleans (La.) -- Race relations.
- New Orleans (La.) -- History -- 19th century.