The day freedom died : the Colfax massacre, the Supreme Court, and the betrayal of Reconstruction / Charles Lane.
Following the Civil War, Colfax, Louisiana, was a town, like many, where Negroes and whites mingled uneasily. But on April 13, 1873, a small army of white ex-Confederate soldiers, enraged after attempts by freedmen to assert their new rights, killed more than sixty Negroes who had occupied a courtho...
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Language: | English |
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New York :
Henry Holt and Co.,
2008.
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Edition: | First edition. |
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Physical Description: | xviii, 326 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Prologue
- "Wholesale murder"
- From plantation to parish
- Power struggle
- War
- Blood on the red
- Black-letter law
- Manhunt
- Louisiana on trial
- A justice's judgment
- "If Louisiana goes..."
- The court speaks
- Epilogue
- Appednix: How many died?.