Remembering the Colfax Massacre: Race, Sex, and the Meanings of Reconstruction Violence

Authors :: Ballantyne, David T.
Source :: Journal of Southern History. August 2021, Vol. 87 Issue 3, p427, 40 p.
Publication Year :: 2021
Abstract: THE COLFAX MASSACRE--DUBBED A "RIOT" BY THE VICTORS--LEFT three white and at least sixty-three Black men dead on Easter Sunday 1873, making it one of Reconstruction's bloodiest racial confrontations. (1) [...]

Subjects :: Colfax Massacre, 1873 -- Social aspects
Female-male relations -- History
History
Regional focus/area studies
Social aspects

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