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- Title
Between Equal Justice and Racial Terror: Freedpeople and the District Court of DeSoto Parish during Reconstruction.
- Authors
DE VRIES, MARK LEON
- Abstract
The article discusses the period of reconstruction, focusing on slavery and racial terror in the U.S. It talks about slave Butler Gibbs from South Carolina who was moved to DeSoto Parish in Louisiana, before the Civil War. Topics include postwar amendments and federal legislation, slaughterhouse cases of 1873, and black criminal cases.
- Subjects
UNITED States; DE Soto Parish (La.); RECONSTRUCTION (U.S. history, 1865-1877); SLAVERY in the United States; RACISM; GIBBS, Butler, b. ca. 1830; SLAUGHTERHOUSE Cases (1873)
- Publication
Louisiana History, 2015, Vol 56, Issue 3, p261
- ISSN
0024-6816
- Publication type
Article