GeoCoords:
Latitude: 32.545213000000
Longitude: -94.366471000000
Longitude: -94.366471000000
County:
- Harrison
Date:
September 8, 1860
Time Period:
Description:
Several dozen enslaved people are hanged or burned in Marshall, accused of participation in an alleged slave rebellion.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
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), 88.
Marshall, Texas; ca. 1870 Collection: The Portal to Texas History; Texas& Pacific Railway Collection; Grace Museum
Image Viewed: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth860961/m1/1/?q=%20date%3A1860-1870
Image Citation:
Photograph of the Texas & Pacific Roundhouse and shops at Marshall Texas. C. very early 1870s
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 32.545213000000
Longitude: -94.366471000000
Longitude: -94.366471000000
County:
- Harrison
Date:
September 8, 1860
Event Description:
Several dozen enslaved people are hanged or burned in Marshall, accused of participation in an alleged slave rebellion.
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), 88.
Marshall, Texas; ca. 1870 Collection: The Portal to Texas History; Texas& Pacific Railway Collection; Grace Museum
Image Viewed: https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth860961/m1/1/?q=%20date%3A1860-1870
Image Citation:
Photograph of the Texas & Pacific Roundhouse and shops at Marshall Texas. C. very early 1870s