Raynors HCA 2019-01
This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 2/21/2019
Booklet, 5-1/2” x 9”, “Origin of the Outrages at Vicksburg. Speech of Hon. Chas. E. Furlong, Senator from Warren County, in the Senate of Mississippi, December 18, 1874”, 16pp., plus cover which chipped.Vicksburg, Vicksburg Herald. On Dec. 7, 1874, the Reconstruction era “Vicksburg Massacre” occurred in Mississippi, with estimates ranging from 75 to 300 African Americans killed. Whites attacked Black citizens who had organized to defend Peter Crosby. Formerly enslaved and a veteran of the Union army, Crosby had been forced to resign from his elected role sheriff.
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