GeoCoords:
Latitude: 29.705949000000
Longitude: -96.539459000000
Longitude: -96.539459000000
County:
- Colorado
Date:
September 5, 1856
Time Period:
Description:
Three enslaved men are hanged for involvement in a plot to kill all the white men in Columbus, seize those men’s wives, and run away to Mexico.
Event Type:
Age:
adult (18+)
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), 13-14.
State Gazette, Vol. 8, No. 4, September 13, 1856.
Wendell G. Addington, "Slave Insurrections in Texas." The Journal of Negro History, vol. 35, no. 4 (October 1950), 415-16.
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 29.705949000000
Longitude: -96.539459000000
Longitude: -96.539459000000
County:
- Colorado
Date:
September 5, 1856
Event Description:
Three enslaved men are hanged for involvement in a plot to kill all the white men in Columbus, seize those men’s wives, and run away to Mexico.
Event Type:
Gender:
male
Age:
adult (18+)
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), 13-14.
State Gazette, Vol. 8, No. 4, September 13, 1856.
Wendell G. Addington, "Slave Insurrections in Texas." The Journal of Negro History, vol. 35, no. 4 (October 1950), 415-16.