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1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre, The: Blood in the Cane Fields (True Crime)

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Days before the tumultuous presidential election of 1868, St. Bernard Parish descended into chaos. As African American men gained the fitting to vote, white Democrats of the parish feared losing their majority. Armed groups mobilized to suppress these recently emancipated voters within the hopes of regaining a lifestyle turned the wrong way up by the Civil War and Reconstruction. Freedpeople were dragged from their homes and murdered in cold blood. Many fled to the cane fields to cover from their attackers. The reported choice of those killed varies from 35 to 135. The tragedy was once hidden, but implications reverberated right through the South and lingered for generations. Creator and historian Chris Dier reveals the horrifying true story in the back of the St. Bernard Parish Massacre.

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