An Absolute Massacre
The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866| By: | James G. Hollandsworth, Jr. |
| Publisher: | Louisiana State University Press |
| Print ISBN: | 9780807151327 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780807151303 |
| Edition: | 0 |
| Copyright: | 2001 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.