An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866
Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
Hardcover. 9 1/4" X 6 1/4". xvi, 168pp. Mild wear to unclipped dust jacket with rubbing to covers and creasing to corners and edges. Price sticker to rear cover of jacket. Bound in red cloth over boards with spine lettered in black. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound.
ABOUT THIS BOOK:
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.(Publisher). Very good / very good. Item #8874
ISBN: 0807125881
Price: $20.00