Political Violence During the Lead-Up to Grant's Election

[PatYoung]

During the months before the election of Ulysses S. Grant in 1868, one of the worst campaigns of political violence in American history broke out in the South. I have a new essay on the scholarly site Emerging Civil War examining the efforts of terrorist groups like the Ku Klux Klan and the Knights of the White Camellia to prevent blacks from voting, as well as the mass uprisings by former Confederates that resulted in massacres of African Americans in Louisiana that killed scores of men and women.

Echoes of the Reconstruction Era: The Political Violence of 1868

ECW welcomes back Patrick Young, author of The Reconstruction Era blog Over the last month I have been researching political violence during the lead-up to the Election of 1868. This is remembered …

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