| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 108.1

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Canada and the United States

James G. Hollandsworth. An Absolute Massacre: The New Orleans Riot of July 30, 1866. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press. 2001. Pp. xvii, 168. $28.95.

The New Orleans Riot of July 30, 1866, was one of the bloodiest events of the Reconstruction era. In less than twelve hours, white policemen and citizens murdered at least thirty-four Republicans and wounded over one hundred more. Most of the victims were defenseless African Americans; many were shot in the back and then pummeled by mobs as they lay prostrate. General Philip Sheridan, postwar military commander of Louisiana and Texas, labeled the riot "an absolute massacre." Although the riot ranks as one of the great atrocities of American history, historians have given it surprisingly little attention. James G. Hollandsworth helps rectify this with a rare book-length history of the riot, the first major study in nearly two decades. The result is a methodical but compelling narrative that follows the riot from its wartime origins through its impact on subsequent Reconstruction policy. . . .

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