Trump v. Barbara · ¶97

15See Masur 234–235. The violence, of course, continued after the War and during Reconstruction. The Colfax, Louisiana, massacre of 1873, for example, was “[t]he bloodiest single instance of racial carnage in the Reconstruction era.” Foner, Reconstruction, at 437. Two hundred and eighty Black people were ruthlessly slaughtered on Easter Sunday. “[T]he Colfax massacre taught many lessons, including the lengths to which some opponents of Reconstruction would go to regain their accustomed authority.” Ibid.

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