An Absolute Massacre
The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866
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 rac…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8071-5131-0
- EAN: 9780807151310
- Produktnummer: 27861050
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 168 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'368 KB
- Abbildungen: 16 halftones, 1 map
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James G. Hollandsworth, Jr.
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