GeoCoords:
Latitude: 30.638426000000
Longitude: -97.677130000000
Longitude: -97.677130000000
County:
- Williamson
Date:
August 14, 1860
Time Period:
Description:
An African American boy is accused of committing arson and hanged by local vigilantes.
Event Type:
Race or Ethnicity:
Age:
youth (13-18)
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), 125.
State Gazette, Vol. 12, No. 3, August 25, 1860.
GeoCoords:
Latitude: 30.638426000000
Longitude: -97.677130000000
Longitude: -97.677130000000
County:
- Williamson
Date:
August 14, 1860
Event Description:
An African American boy is accused of committing arson and hanged by local vigilantes.
Event Type:
Gender:
male
Age:
youth (13-18)
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), 125.
State Gazette, Vol. 12, No. 3, August 25, 1860.