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An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Race Riot of July 30, 1866
Author(s): James G. Hollandsworth Jr. (Author)
- Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
- Publication Date: 1 Mar. 2001
- Language: English
- Print length: 216 pages
- ISBN-10: 0807125881
- ISBN-13: 9780807125885
Book Description
In the summer of 1866 a race riot in New Orleans caused the death of 48 men, the vast majority of them black. This book argues that no other riot in American history had a more profound or lasting effect on the country’s political and social fabric.
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Review
“The more information I obtain of the affair of the 30th in this city the more revolting it becomes. It was no riot; it was an absolute massacre.” – P. H. Sheridan to U. S. Grant, August 2, 1866″
About the Author
James G. Hollandsworth, Jr., is also 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.He lives in Jackson, Mississippi.
