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- An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866
- Book
- 2004
- Published by: Louisiana State University Press
summary
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.
Table of Contents
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- Contents, List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-xi
- Acknowledgments
- p. xiii
- Abbreviations
- pp. xv-xvi
- Introduction
- pp. 1-4
- 1. Give Us a Free State
- pp. 5-18
- 2. No Better Constitution
- pp. 19-27
- 3. There Is No Middle Ground
- pp. 28-42
- 4. We Are in Revolutionary Times
- pp. 43-52
- 8. You Better Stay Home
- pp. 87-96
- 9. Go Away, You Black Son of a Bitch
- pp. 97-106
- 10. For God's Sake, Don't Shoot Us!
- pp. 107-116
- 11. Hurrah for Hell
- pp. 117-125
- 12. Can I Go Home?
- pp. 126-137
- 13. The Rebels Have Control Here
- pp. 138-150
- Postscript
- pp. 151-155
- Bibliography
- pp. 157-163
Additional Information
ISBN
9780807151303
Related ISBN(s)
9780807125885, 9780807151310, 9780807151327
MARC Record
OCLC
804847826
Pages
168
Launched on MUSE
2013-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No