James G. Hollandsworth

An Absolute Massacre (eBook, ePUB)

The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780807151310
• Artikelnr.: 53575160

Autorenporträt

James G. Hollandsworth, Jr.