The Colfax Massacre: The Untold Story of Black Power, White Terror, and the Death of Reconstruction
LeeAnna Keith, . . Oxford, $24.95 (219pp) ISBN 978-0-19-531026-9
It happened in Colfax, La., on Easter Sunday, 1873; when it ended, the “the largest number of victims in the history of racial violence in the United States,†more than one hundred and fifty African-Americans, were dead. Keith places the massacre at the center of her book, but her sharpest focus is upon white political figures and the slave-holding Calhoun family (the character Simon Legree in
Reviewed on: 11/26/2007
Genre: Nonfiction
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