When the Louisiana legislature investigated racial terrorism in 1868 during the elections that year, it issued a detailed report on what it found. The first report covered incidents through the beginning of September. It also issued a Supplemental Report. This is the Supplemental Report of the Joint Committee that examined Louisiana’s political violence from September 1868 to December 1868. Here are some excerpts:
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