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An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866

An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866

Hollandsworth, James G., Jr.

Paperback

Black American Studies

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 080713029X
ISBN13: 9780807130292
Publisher: LSU Press
Published: Oct 1 2004
Pages: 192
Weight: 0.63
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.50 Depth: 8.88
Language: English
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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