GeoCoords:
Latitude: 32.386777000000
Longitude: -96.849581000000
Longitude: -96.849581000000
County:
- Ellis
Date:
July 24, 1860
Time Period:
Description:
White vigilantes hang three enslaved men, Sam Smith, Cato, and Patrick, in Waxahachie, having accused them of conspiring to murder whites in the town.
Event Type:
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Wendell G. Addington, “Slave Insurrections in Texas,” Journal of Negro History 35 (October 1950): 421.
William W. White, “The Texas Slave Insurrection of 1860,” The Southwestern Quarterly 52 (January 1949): 263.
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 32.386777000000
Longitude: -96.849581000000
Longitude: -96.849581000000
County:
- Ellis
Date:
July 24, 1860
Event Description:
White vigilantes hang three enslaved men, Sam Smith, Cato, and Patrick, in Waxahachie, having accused them of conspiring to murder whites in the town.
Event Type:
Gender:
male
Age:
adult (18+)
Citation:
Wendell G. Addington, “Slave Insurrections in Texas,” Journal of Negro History 35 (October 1950): 421.
William W. White, “The Texas Slave Insurrection of 1860,” The Southwestern Quarterly 52 (January 1949): 263.