On the Use of the Word "Terrorism" to Describe Violence During Reconstruction: Anachronism?

[Pat Young]

I am sometimes asked if using the word "terrorism" to describe racial or political violence during the Reconstruction Era is anachronistic.

I have seen such violence described as "terrorism" often enough, and without any further explanation to believe that that those who wrote using that term expected their readers to know what it meant.

Here is an example from the 1869 Supplemental Report of the joint committee of the general assembly of Louisiana on the conduct of the late elections and the condition of peace and order in the state page iv

https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=miun.aew6809.0001.001;view=1up;seq=1

 

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