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S'està carregant… An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866de James G. Hollandsworth
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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. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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In "An Absolute Massacre," he tells the story in a great narrative that puts the reader in with the main characters. The reader gets a sense of the angry, fear, confusion, and horror of that sad day.
So many native New Orleanians are ignorant of this event. I recommend this to anyone who wants to study the history of the U.S. or New Orleans, or wants to study the history of the struggle of black Americans and abolitionists. ( )