GeoCoords:
Latitude: 32.776374000000
Longitude: -96.796804000000
Longitude: -96.796804000000
County:
- Dallas
Date:
Mid-August 1860
Time Period:
Description:
Two enslaved persons are hanged, and another is whipped to death by a mob in Dallas after being accused of committing arson.
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), 89.
Texas Republican, Vol. 11, No. 48, August 18, 1860.
Downtown Dallas, Texas, 1873. Original Title: Downtown Dallas, Texas
Image Type: Photograph
Creator: Squire Haskins Photography
Collection: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Squire Haskins Photography, Inc. Collection
Image Viewed: https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/img/20007919
Image Accessed: August 2, 2022
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 32.776374000000
Longitude: -96.796804000000
Longitude: -96.796804000000
County:
- Dallas
Date:
Mid-August 1860
Event Description:
Two enslaved persons are hanged, and another is whipped to death by a mob in Dallas after being accused of committing arson.
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), 89.
Texas Republican, Vol. 11, No. 48, August 18, 1860.
Downtown Dallas, Texas, 1873. Original Title: Downtown Dallas, Texas
Image Type: Photograph
Creator: Squire Haskins Photography
Collection: University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, Squire Haskins Photography, Inc. Collection
Image Viewed: https://library.uta.edu/digitalgallery/img/20007919
Image Accessed: August 2, 2022