GeoCoords:
Latitude: 32.764722000000
Longitude: -96.808336000000
Longitude: -96.808336000000
County:
- Dallas
Date:
July 23, 1860
Time Period:
Description:
Three enslaved men named Sam, Cato, and Patrick are convicted and hanged by vigilante committee at north bank of the Trinity River, located south of Dallas.
Event Type:
Citation:
Donald E. Reynolds, Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007), 82.
State Gazette, Vol. 11, No. 52, August 4, 1860.
Texas Republican, Vol. 11, No. 48, August 18, 1860.
The Weekly Telegraph, Vol. 26, No. 21, August 11, 1860.
Dallas County Courthouse in Dallas, Texas, in 1857. Image Type: Photograph
Collection: Degoyler Library, Southern Methodist University; Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts and Imprints
Image Viewed: https://digitalcollections.smu.edu/digital/collection/tex/id/3110/rec/98
Image Accessed: September 6, 2022
Image Citation:
Courthouse of the 1850s; 1857 photograph.
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 32.764722000000
Longitude: -96.808336000000
Longitude: -96.808336000000
County:
- Dallas
Date:
July 23, 1860
Event Description:
Three enslaved men named Sam, Cato, and Patrick are convicted and hanged by vigilante committee at north bank of the Trinity River, located south of Dallas.
Event Type:
Gender:
male
Citation:
Donald E. Reynolds, Texas Terror: The Slave Insurrection Panic of 1860 and the Secession of the Lower South (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2007), 82.
State Gazette, Vol. 11, No. 52, August 4, 1860.
Texas Republican, Vol. 11, No. 48, August 18, 1860.
The Weekly Telegraph, Vol. 26, No. 21, August 11, 1860.
Dallas County Courthouse in Dallas, Texas, in 1857. Image Type: Photograph
Collection: Degoyler Library, Southern Methodist University; Texas: Photographs, Manuscripts and Imprints
Image Viewed: https://digitalcollections.smu.edu/digital/collection/tex/id/3110/rec/98
Image Accessed: September 6, 2022
Image Citation:
Courthouse of the 1850s; 1857 photograph.