Political Violence During the Lead-Up to the 1868 Election of Ulysses S. Grant

Pat Young

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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.

 
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