A01=James G. Hollandsworth Jr
Author_James G. Hollandsworth Jr
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Product details
- ISBN 9780807130292
- Weight: 286g
- Dimensions: 165 x 225mm
- Publication Date: 01 Oct 2004
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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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.
James G. Hollandsworth, Jr., was the author of The Louisiana Native Guards: The Black Military Experience during the Civil War and Pretense of Glory: The Life of Nathaniel P. Banks.
