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portada The Colfax Courthouse
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Language
English
Pages
216
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9798896654285

The Colfax Courthouse

Rowena P. Whitmore (Author) · NobleTrex Press · Paperback

The Colfax Courthouse - Rowena P. Whitmore

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Synopsis "The Colfax Courthouse"

On Easter Sunday, 1873, the courthouse in Colfax, Louisiana, became a killing ground. Black veterans, freedmen, and local Republican defenders held a wooden parish building for what they believed was the law; outside, a white supremacist militia gathered with rifles, a cannon, and a plan to take back power. By nightfall, the courthouse was burning, the defenders were broken, and the surrender had become a massacre. The Colfax Courthouse tells this story at ground level, where national ideals rose or died in the space of a town square. Here are the newly freed men who staked their future on the ballot box, the rival governors whose disputed election turned Louisiana into a battlefield, the militia commander William Ward trying to hold the line, and the white forces led by Christopher Columbus Nash closing in. Then the drama widens, from the smoke of Colfax to the courtroom clash that reached the U.S. Supreme Court and changed the meaning of citizenship in America. Vivid, deeply researched, and driven by the choices of real people, this is narrative history with the pace of a thriller and the discipline of the archive. Colfax was not a side story to Reconstruction; it was one of the moments that decided whether freedom would be protected by law or destroyed by terror. Read this book, and see how a single day in Louisiana helped shape the America that followed.

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