| An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866 Contributor(s): Hollandsworth, James G. (Author) |
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ISBN: 080713029X ISBN-13: 9780807130292 Publisher: LSU Press OUR PRICE: $21.56 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2004 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - African American Studies |
| Dewey: 976.334 |
| LCCN: 00059675 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.5" W x 8.88" (0.63 lbs) 192 pages |
| Themes: - Ethnic Orientation - African American - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana - Chronological Period - 1851-1899 |
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| Publisher Description: 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. |