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"Bloody Colfax"

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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC08396 Author/Creator: Place Written: s.l. Type: Document Date: [1876] Pagination: Order a Copy

Distributed during the hotly contested Louisiana gubernatorial election of 1876, "The Colored Chiefs testify. . .The Hellish plot by which, through the slaughter of the negroes, the Kellogg usurpation secured Northern sympathy. . ."

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