Warfield, Hannah |
female |
abt May 1, 1863 |
Maryland |
Howard |
Hood's Mills |
being held by a slave by Thomas Dorsey and his wife, she struck back at Mrs. Dorsey during a whipping and was sentenced to
ten years' imprisonment |
7 |
Mulliner, Robert |
male |
June 21, 1863 |
New York |
Orange |
Newburgh |
the African-American was hanged in a lynching for rape |
8 |
John Jones |
male |
1863 |
--- |
--- |
--- |
his wife, Dola Ann Jones, testified that he along with two other black men were sentenced in 1863 to 11 years and 11 months for helping
slaves to escape |
7 |
Coats, Richard |
male |
1863 |
|
--- |
--- |
sentenced to 11 years and 11 months for helping slaves to escape |
7 |
Day, Caleb |
male |
1863 |
--- |
--- |
--- |
sentenced to 11 years and 11 months for helping slaves to escape |
7 |
Hill, Allen C. |
male |
1863 |
Texas |
Wise/Parker |
Springtown |
the white "Unionist" was shot to death in the woods by his neighbors |
9 |
Ware, Humphrey |
male |
May 1864 |
Maryland |
Prince George |
Piscataway |
on their way to Washington D.C., Ware and his wife, both former slaves, were arrested by Alfred Kirby and their belongings
stolen |
7 |
Ware, Catherine |
female |
May 1864 |
Maryland |
Prince George |
Piscataway |
on their way to Washington D.C., Ware and her husband, both former slaves, were arrested by Alfred Kirby and their belongings
stolen |
7 |
white male |
male |
August 1864 |
Georgia |
Brooks |
--- |
a "plot" was uncovered leading to the hanging of one white man and three slaves |
3 |
slave #1 |
male |
August 1864 |
Georgia |
Brooks |
--- |
a "plot" was uncovered leading to the hanging of one white man and three slaves |
3 |
slave #2 |
--- |
August 1864 |
Georgia |
Brooks |
--- |
a "plot" was uncovered leading to the hanging of one white man and three slaves |
3 |
slave #3 |
--- |
August 1864 |
Georgia |
Brooks |
--- |
a "plot" was uncovered leading to the hanging of one white man and three slaves |
3 |
Jones, Jesse |
male |
October 1964 |
North Carolina |
Robeson |
Lumberton |
the son of William Jones was killed by Peter Graham and Dick Frank; two records, one of which says the incident took place in
October of 1866 |
7 |
"a negro" |
--- |
November 1864 (?) |
Nevada |
--- |
"near the sink of the Carson" |
the African-American was hanged for having shot a man |
8 |
3 children of Basil Crowdy |
--- |
December of 1864 |
Maryland |
Calvert |
--- |
despite the parents protest at the court hearing, the children were apprenticed to R.D. Sollay; Mrs. Crowdy was struck by the
Constable at the hearing in front of the judges |
7 |
--- |
--- |
1864 |
Kansas |
Anderson |
Garnett |
a witness claimed that 75 to 90% of the county was on hand to witness the lynching of an African-American |
10 |
--- |
male |
1864 |
Kansas |
Leavenworth |
Leavenworth |
a white Union soldier fired into a crowd of black soldiers critically wounding one |
10 |
African-American #1 |
male |
February 1865 |
North Carolina |
Robeson |
--- |
lynched for an unknown offense |
16 |
African-American #2 |
male |
February 1865 |
North Carolina |
Robeson |
--- |
lynched for an unknown offense |
16 |
African-American #3 |
male |
February 1865 |
North Carolina |
Robeson |
--- |
lynched for an unknown offense |
16 |
"Nigger Jim" |
male |
April 1865 |
Washington |
Walla Walla |
Walla Walla |
the African-American was hanged in a lynching along with six white other cattle and horse thiefs |
8 |
black #1 |
--- |
April 6, 1865 |
Kansas |
Douglas |
Black Jack |
at least three African-Americans were hanged by vigilantes |
10 |
black #2 |
--- |
April 6, 1865 |
Kansas |
Douglas |
Black Jack |
at least three African-Americans were hanged by vigilantes |
10 |
black #3 |
--- |
April 6, 1865 |
Kansas |
Douglas |
Black Jack |
at least three African-Americans were hanged by vigilantes |
10 |
black youth #1 |
--- |
Spring 1865 |
Kansas |
Shawnee |
Indianola |
a mob led by a drunken teacher lynched two black youths; a farmer claimed that one of the youths was buried alive |
23 |
black youth #2 |
--- |
Spring 1865 |
Kansas |
Shawnee |
Indianola |
a mob led by a drunken teacher lynched two black youths; a farmer claimed that one of the youths was buried alive |
23 |
Johnson, Lloyd |
male |
June 26, 1865 |
Maryland |
Howard |
Elkridge Landing |
threatened by two white men named Hobbs and McCauley with a knife then again on July 3rd, and after a third time fled to
Washington D.C. |
7 |
Sims, James |
male |
June 26, 1865 |
Maryland |
Howard |
Elkridge Landing |
threatened by two white men named Hobbs and McCauley with a knife then again on July 3rd, and after a third time fled to
Washington D.C. |
7 |
Slater, George W. |
male |
July 10, 1865 |
Maryland |
Charles |
Bryantown |
a judge jailed Slater for being unable to show his Navy discharge papers which were being held by an agent trying to collect on
what the government owed him |
7 |
Lee, Calvert |
male |
July 20, 1865 |
Maryland |
--- |
--- |
severely beaten by Robert Neal; Neal would have shot Lee if not for the interference of Neal's son |
7 |
4 children of John Brown |
--- |
July 26, 1865 |
Maryland |
Anne Arundel |
--- |
Brown left his four children with Benjamin Clark to get a job in Washington D.C.; Clark had the children bound to him even
though the father was able to send money for their complete support |
7 |
Curly, Samuel |
male |
July 26, 1865 |
Virginia |
Fairfax |
Woodville |
Spencer Curly went to obtain his son Samuel from James W. Bond and was prevented from getting him by death threats |
7 |
--- |
--- |
July 27, 1865 |
District of Columbia |
--- |
Freedman's Village (Washington) |
W.J. Miner, a white man, was ordered arrested for threatening the lives of freedmen and for attemting to collect unjust claims |
7 |
McVeigh, Beverly |
male |
July 29, 1865 |
Maryland |
Calvert |
Port Republic |
beaten by John Bond Jr., an ex-Confederate soldier |
7 |
Williams, Mary |
female |
August 1, 1865 |
Maryland |
Prince George |
Beltsville |
Betty Williams along with a black male companion went to the home of Thomas belt to retrieve her daughter; they were both
threatened with either beating or death |
7 |
McVeigh, Beverly |
male |
August 8, 1865 |
Maryland |
Calvert |
Port Republic |
beaten for having voted for Abraham Lincoln by James and John Brown; they fired at him with a revolver but he managed to escape |
7 |
Brown, Isaac |
male |
August 9, 1865 |
Maryland |
Calvert |
--- |
due to Brown's Union sentiments he was assaulted at his own doorstep by Calvin Robinson who sent for his gun causing Brown to
flee |
7 |
Parker, Fanny |
female |
August 11, 1865 |
Virginia |
Loudoun |
Waterford |
the infant daughter of Annie Parker was sent to the South by Henry Peyton and he refused to give her the location of the baby |
7 |
son of Eliza Johnson |
male |
August 11, 1865 |
Maryland |
Howard |
--- |
Eliza's son was detained by James S. Magruder without her consent |
7 |
Smith, Charles and Andrew |
male |
August 12, 1865 |
Maryland |
Anne Arundel |
Crownsville |
the sons of Sophia Smith were detained by Mrs. Lucinda Dodson without her consent |
7 |
African-American #1 |
--- |
mid-August 1865 |
North Carolina |
Duplin |
--- |
lynched for trespassing |
16 |
African-American #2 |
--- |
mid-August 1865 |
North Carolina |
Duplin |
--- |
lynched for trespassing |
16 |
African-American #3 |
--- |
mid-August 1865 |
North Carolina |
Duplin |
--- |
lynched for trespassing |
16 |
African-American #4 |
--- |
mid-August 1865 |
North Carolina |
Duplin |
--- |
lynched for trespassing |
16 |
African-American #5 |
--- |
mid-August 1865 |
North Carolina |
Duplin |
--- |
lynched for trespassing |
16 |
African-American #6 |
--- |
mid-August 1865 |
North Carolina |
Duplin |
--- |
lynched for trespassing |
16 |
Wilkeson, Marshall |
male |
August 15, 1865 |
Maryland |
Charles |
Cracklingtown |
Wilkeson, a former soldier who was white, declared himself a Union man and was beaten by a dozen men |
7 |
Craig, Isaac |
male |
August 15, 1865 |
Maryland |
Charles |
Cracklingtown |
Craig, who was black, cheered a speaker who had mentioned the Emancipation Proclamation and was nearly beaten to death by a group of about a
dozen men; they attempted to hang him but stopped before killing Craig |
7 |
Butler, Richard |
male |
August 16, 1865 |
Maryland |
St. Mary's |
St. Joseph's Church |
Butler was struck with a fist and with the butt end of a whip for no reason and the constable present did nothing to protect him
or to rebuke the man who had done it |
7 |
Sewell, Milly |
female |
August 18, 1865 |
Maryland |
St. Mary's |
Harrisburg |
beaten by her landlord becasue the landlord wanted to appropriate the tobacco crop she had grown on the land |
7 |
Spriggs, Phena |
female |
August 18, 1865 |
Maryland |
Prince George |
Queen Anne |
the daughter of Orzay and Rachel Spriggs was forcibly detained by Gabriel Mitchell |
7 |
Hawkins, Susan |
female |
August 18, 1865 |
Maryland |
Baltimore |
--- |
the daughter of Winnie Hawkins was held without consent by Olivia M. McGill |
7 |
Stewart, Susan and Richard |
--- |
August 19, 1865 |
Virginia |
Stafford |
--- |
the two children of Harriet Stewart were illegally detained by Robert Perry |
7 |
Smith, Frank |
male |
August 19, 1865 |
Virginia |
Fairfax |
Hunter's Mills |
the son of Harriet Smith was forcibly detained by Mrs. Hunter |
7 |
Carter, Sidney |
female |
August 19, 1865 |
Maryland |
Prince George |
Bladensburg |
the black woman was beaten by a white man whose daughter, Mrs. Hardisty, claimed that Ms. Carter was impudent toward her |
7 |
--- |
female |
August 21, 1865 |
District of Columbia |
--- |
Washington |
a black woman was thrown from a train by a group of white men encouraged by the conductor; she was injured, but not killed |
7 |
Gray, Emily |
female |
August 21, 1865 |
Maryland |
Prince George |
Brandywine |
the daughter of George Gray was illegally detained by Richard M. Robinson |
7 |
Colson, Nancy |
female |
August 21, 1865 |
Maryland |
Hartford |
Darlington |
the daughter of Lettie Colson was held without consent by Stephen John who refused to give her back to the mother |
7 |
Meeks(?), William Henry |
male |
August 22, 1865 |
Virginia |
Loudoun |
Mount Gilead |
the son of Frazier Meeks was illegally detained by John Aldrich |
7 |
Briggs, Clay |
male |
August 23, 1865 |
Virginia |
Loudoun |
Middleburg |
the son of Robinson Briggs was illegally detained by John Davis |
7 |
Briggs, Fanny |
female |
August 23, 1865 |
Virginia |
Loudoun |
Circleville |
the daughter of Robinson Briggs was illegally detained by Lott Iden |
7 |
3 children of Dennis Purvis |
--- |
August 23, 1865 |
Virginia |
Loudoun |
Circleville |
Samuel M. Simpson illegally detained the three children of Dennis Purvis |
7 |
Johnson, Phillis |
female |
August 25, 1865 |
Maryland |
Anne Arundel |
--- |
the daughter of Susannah Johnson was illegally detained by Mrs. Betty DeVaughan |
7 |
Smith, Jackson |
male |
August 25, 1865 |
Maryland |
Anne Arundel |
--- |
the son of Caroline Smith was illegally detained by Mrs. Betty DeVaughan |
7 |
Crump, Shedrick |
male |
August 27, 1865 |
District of Columbia |
--- |
Washington |
two Irish men beat Mr. Crump as he exited a church from attending a missionary meeting, striking, kicking and berating him |
7 |
Powel, Harriet |
female |
August 28, 1865 |
Maryland |
Prince George |
Beltsville |
Mary Powel was forced off with threats when she tried to retrieve her daughter from Samuel F. Belt |
7 |
Hanson, Charles and Israel |
male |
August 31, 1865 |
Maryland |
Baltimore |
Baltimore |
the sons of Amelia Hanson were illegally detained by John S. Berry |
7 |
--- |
--- |
September 1, 1865 |
Virginia |
--- |
--- |
the daughter and four grandchildren of Maria Porter were illegally detained by Richard Stromen(?) |
7 |
Duffies, Thuresa |
female |
September 2, 1865 |
Maryland |
Frederick |
near Frederick City |
held as a slave by George Williams along with her children and she was beaten and braised by him; he also kept all of their
clothes and household goods; when she first escaped she was jailed and Williams had to bail her out |
7 |
Thomas, Samuel |
|
September 2, 1865 |
Maryland |
Carroll |
--- |
Samuel's white landlord testified that Thomas' house was broken into by three white men who destroyed and burgled the property
inside |
7 |
Brown, Samuel |
male |
September 4, 1865 |
Maryland |
Anne Arundel |
near Smith River ferry |
a dispute over creating an employment contract led Thomas Allaby to hit Brown with a brick in the head, beat him with a whip,
and cut him with an axe |
7 |
Green, Kitty |
female |
September 8, 1865 |
Maryland/Virginia |
--- |
--- |
the daughter of Mary Green was illegally detained by Charles Mills |
7 |
son of Rindy Allen |
male |
September, 14, 1865 |
Maryland |
Prince Frederick |
--- |
her son was bound by the Orphan's Court to Ira Young without the mother's consent and despite the fact that she had hired him
out to another man; the man whipped the boy and treated him poorly; the mother was jailed for trying to persuade him to "leave his
Master" |
7 |
Parker, Hannah |
female |
September 16, 1865 |
Maryland/Virginia |
--- |
--- |
Amelia Parker's daughter was forcibly detained by John Aldrich |
7 |
Bowman (?), Ida |
female |
October, 3 1865 |
Maryland |
Charles |
--- |
Gregory Bowman's step-daughter was forcibly detained by Charles Hamon |
7 |
"Frank" |
male |
October 8, 1865 |
South Carolina |
Barnwell |
--- |
he was shot in his left forearm, then kidnapped and held for at least a few days before making his escape |
7 |
--- |
female |
October 1865 |
Alabama |
Macon |
--- |
black woman "ravished" and one ear cut off |
14 |
--- |
female |
November 1865 |
District of Columbia |
--- |
Washington |
a freedwoman was sentenced to be sold for two years because she was persuading her children to leave their master who they were
apprenticed to without her consent; they had gotten other gainful employment |
7 |
Welsh, Charles Jr. and Julia |
--- |
November 15, 1865 |
Virginia |
--- |
Falls Church |
the children of Eliza Welsh were illegally detained by M. Taylor |
7 |
children of Jordan Diggs |
--- |
December 1, 1865 |
Maryland |
Prince George |
--- |
the children of Jordan Diggs were held as "apprenticed" to a Mr. Page without the parents consent and would not be returned |
7 |
Brooks, Alexander |
male |
December 23, 1865 |
Maryland |
Charles |
Chickamucknow |
Brooks, a black former Union soldier, was assaulted without provocation by Charles Gilroy, a white man; the owner of the store attempted
to break up the fight and was accidentally struck; Brooks was the only one arrested and the judge would not accept bail except
from a white man |
7 |
Maybury, Sam |
male |
December 1865 |
Louisiana |
--- |
Mansfield |
whipped by Lord Hill and Henry Smith along with other white men; died from the beating, but not immediately |
2 |
Smith, Olivia |
female |
December 1865 |
Maryland |
Calvert |
Huntingtown |
the daughter of Eliza Smith was apprenticed without the mother's consent to John Ammager |
7 |
--- |
male |
1865 |
Kansas |
Miami |
--- |
an African-American was discovered hanging from a rope though it is unknown who the assailants were |
10 |
Adams, Henry |
male |
1865 |
Louisiana |
--- |
--- |
Adams was beaten by a group of whites for stating that he did not have an owner. |
1 |
--- |
male |
1865 |
Kansas |
--- |
--- |
Robert Edwards, a native of Mississippi known for his race hatred, murdered a black man |
10 |
--- |
male |
1865 |
North Carolina |
Chatham |
--- |
lynched for an unknown offense |
16 |
_____, Alfred |
male |
January 2, 1866 |
Alabama |
Sumter |
--- |
killed |
7 |
Foreman, Bob |
male |
January 4, 1866 |
Alabama |
Bullock |
Union Springs |
"cut" by whites; survived |
7 |
Spruill, Amos |
male |
January 5, 1866 |
North Carolina |
New Hanover |
Wilmington |
William Lawrence and James Meget began by assaulting the freedman with snowballs but ended up kicking and punching him and
attempted to draw a pistol on him before they were stopped, after the freedman had vociferously complained about his treatment
via the snowballs |
7 |
Speakes, Richard |
male |
January 6, 1866 |
Maryland/Virginia |
--- |
--- |
the freedman was beaten severely by his employer |
7 |
--- |
--- |
January 6, 1866 |
Maryland |
Prince George |
--- |
Mary Franklin was refused custody of the children of her deceased sister whom she was able to support by Thomas Robinson |
7 |
--- |
female |
January 6, 1866 |
Alabama |
Lee |
Opelika |
14-year-old black girl was "ravished" and hadboth ears cut off by a white man |
14 |
Ross, Rev. J. A. |
male |
January 14, 1866 |
Virginia |
Loudoun |
--- |
stopped by three men in Confederate uniforms on the road from Leesburg to Waterford and threatened with his life at gunpoint if
he did not leave Virginia as "Damned Yankees must leave with Yankee Soldiers"; they also attempted to rob him though he had no money |
7 |
children of Dennis Smith |
--- |
January 17, 1866 |
Maryland |
Calvert |
--- |
Smith's children were held by Joseph Prout as "apprenticed" without the consent of the parents and Prout assaulted Mrs. Smith |
7 |
Turner, Frank and Charles |
male |
January 17, 1866 |
Maryland |
Howard |
--- |
the sons of Charlotte turned were held without consent by William Preston |
7 |
Riggs, Wesley |
male |
January 23, 1866 |
Maryland/Virginia |
--- |
--- |
held in slavery by William Kundly |
7 |
Rector, William |
male |
January 23, 1866 |
Maryland/Virginia |
--- |
--- |
disarmed by a farmer and then shot, though not killed |
7 |
--- |
female |
January 25, 1866 |
Alabama |
Montgomery |
--- |
stabbed by a man named Ballard; survived |
7 |
--- |
male |
January 1866 |
North Carolina |
Beaufort |
--- |
lynched because of "race prejudice" |
16 |
--- |
--- |
February 5, 1866 |
Maryland |
Anne Arundel |
Annapolis |
a freedwoman with consumption's only son who had been working and supporting her was apprenticed out under Maryland law leaving
her destitute and under employment not of his choosing |
7 |
Barbour, Essex |
male |
February 7, 1866 |
Maryland |
St. Mary's |
Choptico |
the black former Union soldier was beaten by four white men including a former Confederate soldier |
7 |
_____, Richard |
male |
February 14, 1866 |
Alabama |
Russell |
close to Columbus GA |
killed |
7 |
--- |
male |
February 14, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Lenoir |
--- |
lynched because of "race prejudice" |
16 |
--- |
female |
February 1866 |
Alabama |
Dallas |
near Selma |
head cut severely after being beaten with a club by her employer; survived |
7 |
Beard, _____ |
male |
ca. February 1866 |
Alabama |
Bibb |
--- |
the agent of the Freedman's Bureau was whipped and run out of the county |
15 |
Higgenbotham, _____ |
male |
ca. February 1866 |
Alabama |
Bibb |
--- |
the agent of the Freedman's Bureau was whipped and run out of the county |
15 |
African-American #1 |
--- |
February 1866 |
North Carolina |
Lenoir |
--- |
lynched for an unknown offense |
16 |
African-American #2 |
--- |
February 1866 |
North Carolina |
Lenoir |
--- |
lynched for an unknown offense |
16 |
African-American #3 |
--- |
February 1866 |
North Carolina |
Lenoir |
--- |
lynched for an unknown offense |
16 |
African-American #4 |
--- |
February 1866 |
North Carolina |
Lenoir |
--- |
lynched for an unknown offense |
16 |
--- |
male |
February 1866 |
North Carolina |
Duplin |
--- |
lynched because of "race prejudice" |
16 |
--- |
female |
March 6, 1866 |
Maryland |
Dorchester |
near Vienna |
the black female teacher was beaten by Cyrus Stock a white man and rendered unconscious for some time |
7 |
--- |
--- |
March 11, 1866 |
Maryland |
Queen Anne's |
Centreville |
two white men burnt down a black church because it was also used as a schoolhouse for black children |
7 |
--- |
male |
March 12, 1866 |
Virginia |
Nansemond |
--- |
a freedman's church and schoolhouse were burned down |
7 |
--- |
male |
March 12, 1866 |
Virginia |
Isle of Wight |
--- |
the unknown freedman was murdered by "unknown parties" |
7 |
Stokes, Chester |
male |
ca. March 12, 1866 |
Virginia |
Lunenberg |
--- |
the freedman attempted to serve a notice to a white man to appear at the Freedman's bureu to settle a claim; the man first attempted
to drag Stokes into the woods, then when he escaped fired three shots at him adn let loose his six dogs to chase him; the plaintiff did not appear
for the hearing |
7 |
Hutchinson, Henry |
male |
March 19, 1866 |
Maryland |
Prince George |
Nottingham |
he was assaulted and beaten by a group of white men, then jailed under the charge of having threatened one of their lives |
7 |
Abraham, Mary and Martha |
female |
March 23, 1866 |
Maryland |
Anne Arundel |
Crownsville |
the children of John Abraham were illegally detained by Edward Butler |
7 |
Roberts, ____ |
male |
ca. March 31, 1866 |
Virginia |
Rappahannock |
--- |
a white man was acquitted of the murder of the freedman |
7 |
McCord, Bennet |
male |
ca. March 31, 1866 |
Virginia |
Clarke |
Berryville |
the freedman was murdered by a white man who was at large for at least a full month |
7 |
|
male |
ca. March 31, 1866 |
Virginia |
Matthews |
--- |
a building used as a church and schoolhouse by freedmen and women was burned down |
7 |
--- |
male |
March 1866 |
Alabama |
Cullman |
near West Point |
killed |
7 |
--- |
female |
March 1866 |
Alabama |
Montgomery |
--- |
killed by a man named Bradley with an axe |
7 |
"Bertraud" |
male |
March 1866 |
Kentucky |
Bourbon |
Paris |
lynched for rape |
18 |
Johnson, Tom |
male |
early/mid 1866 |
Alabama |
Bibb |
--- |
rumors purported that Johnson was "sporting fine clothes" and he was then found hanged from a tree |
15 |
Russell, Rube |
male |
early/mid 1866 |
Alabama |
Bibb |
--- |
rumors purported that Russell was "sporting fine clothes" and he was then found hanged from a tree |
15 |
--- |
female |
April 3, 1866 |
Alabama |
--- |
--- |
the woman was kidnapped by three men and taken out to the swamp where she was whipped and beaten with a pistol |
7 |
Gray, James |
male |
April 10, 1866 |
Maryland |
Charles |
Bryantown |
his employer, H. H. Bean after not paying him for some time, came to Mr. Gray's residence and knocked him down with the back of
an axe saying he had not been in the fields enough at which point Gray left his employ |
7 |
Green, Washington |
male |
ca. April 21, 1866 |
Virginia |
Louisa |
--- |
the freedman's murder went unpunished as a white man was acquitted of the crime |
7 |
Brooks, Phillip |
male |
April 23, 1866 |
Virginia |
Nottoway |
--- |
the freedman was beaten and shot at by a white man |
7 |
two black men |
male |
April 24, 1866 |
Virginia |
Nottoway |
--- |
a Mr. Coleman, white, shot and wounded one man and brutally beat another; five black men made a complaint to the magistrate;
the Magistrate had the five of them jailed 4 days later on a complaint by Mr. Coleman |
7 |
--- |
male |
April 27, 1866 |
Alabama |
Sumter |
near Livingston |
shot by a former Confederate soldier; survived |
7 |
Blanding, Lt. J.B. |
male |
April 30, 1866 |
Mississippi |
|
Grenada |
the officer of the Freedom Bureau was murdered |
14 |
Akers, ____ |
male |
ca. April 30, 1866 |
Virginia |
Appomattox |
--- |
the "gentleman" attempted to keep a Justice of the Peace from arresting freedmen and women for an anlawful assemblage when they
were gathered for a wedding; the Justice and his escort managed to whip thirteen of the slaves; Akers was then sent before a grand jury
for his "crime" |
7 |
--- |
male |
April 1866 |
Alabama |
Montgomery |
near a sawmill by Montgomery |
killed |
7 |
--- |
male |
April 1866 |
Alabama |
Butler |
--- |
killed with an axe |
7 |
freedman #1 |
male |
April 1866 |
Alabama |
Shelby |
--- |
killed by two white brothers |
7 |
freedman #2 |
male |
April 1866 |
Alabama |
Shelby |
--- |
killed by two white brothers |
7 |
freedman #3 |
male |
April 1866 |
Alabama |
Shelby |
--- |
killed by two white brothers |
7 |
--- |
male |
April 1866 |
Alabama |
Butler |
--- |
clubbed to death |
7 |
--- |
male |
April 1866 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
--- |
thrown down a well |
7 |
Ripley, Sgt. Josiah |
male |
ca. April 1866 |
Texas |
DeWitt |
Yorktown |
he was found murdered along the road with another US soldier |
14 |
O'Brien, Pvt. John |
male |
ca. April 1866 |
Texas |
DeWitt |
Yorktown |
he was found murdered along the road with another US soldier |
14 |
--- |
female |
April 1866 |
Alabama |
Jefferson |
--- |
thrown down a well |
7 |
--- |
male |
ca. May 1, 1866 |
Virginia |
Dinwiddie |
Petersburg |
three black churches burned |
7 |
Brown, Robert and Geoerge |
male |
ca. May 1, 1866 |
Virginia |
Henrico |
--- |
George was beaten by a white man while with his brother; Robert had a knife in his hand at the time and said "if he had been a man he
would have hurt that man"; he was arrested for making that statement; George was refused a warrant for the arrest of the man who had beaten him |
7 |
--- |
male |
May 2, 1866 |
South Carolina |
--- |
--- |
beaten with a stick by a white man, bled profusely from the head; survived |
1 |
--- |
female |
May 5, 1866 |
Virginia |
Fairfax |
Fairfax |
former soldiers of "Mosby's Guerillas" threatened to tar and feather a black female teacher and on numerous occasions accosted
a former black Union soldier |
7 |
____, Moore |
male |
May 7, 1866 |
Alabama |
Tuscaloosa |
Tuscaloosa |
strung up until almost dead to force information out of him about a robbery; survived |
7 |
Oliver, Amanda |
female |
May 9, 1866 |
Maryland |
Anne Arundel |
Mills |
the daughter of Rosanna Oliver was held without consent by Joshua Linthium |
7 |
Craighead, Willis |
male |
May 10, 1866 |
Virginia |
Lunenburg |
--- |
the freedman was murdered by "parties unknown" |
7 |
McAdams, Elbert |
male |
May 12, 1866 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
near Abbeville |
McAdams was shot three times and had his throat cut; the reason for his killing is unknown |
7 |
--- |
male |
ca. May 12, 1866 |
Virginia |
Buckingham |
--- |
the freedman was sentenced to twenty lashes for petite larceny |
7 |
Powell, Hillary |
male |
May 22, 1866 |
Maryland |
--- |
--- |
the freedman was beaten by Dr. A.H. Somers until senseless when he was returning home from church |
7 |
Ellis, Samuel |
male |
ca. May 22, 1866 |
Virginia |
Norfolk |
Portsmouth |
the freedman was shot by a white man; whether he survived is unclear; the jury found that Ellis was shot by "some person
unknown" |
7 |
Jeffery, Joseph |
male |
ca. May 23, 1866 |
Virginia |
Norfolk |
--- |
the freedman was assaulted by a white man who "knocked him senseless" with a brick |
7 |
--- |
male |
ca. May 23, 1866 |
Virginia |
Norfolk |
--- |
two freedman were nearly clubbed to death by two night watchmen; the watchmen were fired |
7 |
--- |
male |
ca. May 23, 1866 |
Virginia |
York |
--- |
a schoolhouse for black children was burned down |
7 |
--- |
male |
ca. May 24, 1866 |
Virginia |
Loudoun |
near Leesburg |
the freedman was shot by a man named Lovett |
14 |
--- |
female |
ca. May 26, 1866 |
Virginia |
Lunenburg |
--- |
the elderly freedwoman was beaten by a white man who admitted such before a magistrate, but yet he was not indicted with a crime |
7 |
Rosanna |
female |
ca. May 26, 1866 |
Virginia |
Smythe |
--- |
the freedwoman was shot in the arm by a white man, but the case was dismissed |
7 |
eight blacks |
--- |
ca. May 28, 1866 |
Virginia |
Botetourt |
Fincastle |
eight blacks were knosked down and beaten, five of them severely by a group of whites; at least some assailants were arrested |
7 |
--- |
male |
May 29, 1866 |
Alabama |
Sumter |
--- |
black man killed by Lucian Jones for refusing to sign a contract |
7 |
Dick, Mrs. Richard |
female |
May 29, 1866 |
Alabama |
--- |
--- |
beaten by her employer with a club |
7 |
Dick, Richard |
male |
May 29, 1866 |
Alabama |
--- |
--- |
after his wife was beaten with a club, his protests led to him being taken form his house and whipped with a "buggy trace"
by the son of the employer and a couple others |
7 |
--- |
--- |
May 30, 1866 |
Alabama |
Tuscaloosa |
between Tuscaloosa and Greensboro |
a mulatto person was hung by grapevine on the roadside |
7 |
Jones, Randolph |
male |
ca. May 31, 1866 |
Virginia |
Powhatan |
--- |
the freedman was sentenced to 3 years imprisonment for stealing six hogs from a white man with no evidence of association with the crime |
7 |
Brown, Charles E. |
male |
ca. May 31, 1866 |
Virginia |
Frederick |
--- |
the freedman was assaulted with a pistol by a white man; justices refused to issue a warrant |
7 |
Phelps, Thomas |
male |
ca. May 31, 1866 |
Virginia |
Franklin |
Rocky Mount |
two horse thieves, one white and one black, were tried and sentenced as equally guilty of the crime; the white man received one year
imprisonment and Phelps received five years imprisonment |
7 |
--- |
male |
ca. May 31, 1866 |
Virginia |
Campbell |
Lynchburg |
the freedman was pursued by a white gang of men and shot in the hip for refusing to play banjo for the men |
7 |
Charles |
male |
May 1866 |
Kentucky |
Franklin |
Frankfort |
lynched for attempted rape |
18 |
--- |
male |
May 1866 |
Kentucky |
Jefferson |
Louisvile |
lynched for rape |
18 |
"Tom" |
male |
May 1866 |
Kentucky |
Daviess |
Owensboro |
lynched for rape |
18 |
Banks, Martha Ann |
female |
ca. June 2, 1866 |
Virginia |
King William |
Richmond |
the girl was beaten by a white woman in a "horrible and most inhuman manner" |
7 |
Hackey, Henry |
male |
ca. June 5, 1866 |
Virginia |
Northumberland |
--- |
Hackey was murdered by a white man who was acquitted unanimously |
7 |
Alexander, ____ |
male |
June 16, 1866 |
Alabama |
Lee |
Auburn |
the preacher was beaten and forced to leave his home |
7 |
Steele, Virgil |
male |
June 16, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Cumberland |
--- |
Lumley Johnson, white, assaulted the freedman with a hoe |
7 |
Graves, Archer |
male |
June 16, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Cumberland |
--- |
William Warren, white, assaulted and beat the freedman |
7 |
Thompson, Henry |
male |
ca. June 18, 1866 |
Virginia |
--- |
Richmond |
the freedman was beaten by a group of white men adn then imprisoned by police |
7 |
Hewlett, Robert |
male |
ca. June 19, 1866 |
Virginia |
--- |
Richmond |
assaulted with a whip, the freedman brought the assailant to court where he was acquitted despite the evidence |
7 |
Ambers, William |
male |
June 20, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Richmond |
--- |
John Manison, white, shot Mr. Williams in the leg |
7 |
--- |
--- |
June 21, 1866 |
North Carolina |
New Hanover |
Camp Whiting |
the homes of eight families of freedmen were burned |
7 |
Rouse, Gabe |
male |
June 23, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Columbus |
--- |
assaulted with a whip by Dillon Baldwin |
7 |
Hall, Joseph |
male |
June 25, 1866 |
North Carolina |
--- |
McHenry's Mill |
the freedman was shot at, beaten, and whipped by William Peden and a Mr. Wright |
7 |
Somerset, Mary |
female |
June 25, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Columbus |
--- |
the freewoman was assaulted by a stick by Matthew Thompson, white |
7 |
--- |
--- |
June 26, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Bladen |
--- |
a black woman was raped by a white man and action was being taken in the courts |
7 |
two black men |
male |
ca. June 30, 1866 |
Virginia |
Nansemond |
Suffolk |
the older black men were nearly killed with bricks by a "party of white ruffians"; the party also assaulted numerous other blacks
throughout the day |
7 |
--- |
male |
ca. June 30, 1866 |
Virginia |
Nansemond |
Suffolk |
a white man shot a black man in the head; the victim survived and the assailant was not arrested |
7 |
Rich, Peggy |
female |
ca. June 30, 1866 |
Virginia |
Richmond |
--- |
the freedwoman was assaulted with a stick by the same white man twice in one day; in the first instance he was released on bail
and in the second acquitted |
7 |
--- |
--- |
June 1866 |
Alabama |
--- |
--- |
black person was murdered by a man named Humphreys who lived near Claiborne, Alabama |
7 |
--- |
--- |
June 1866 |
Alabama |
Elmore |
Wetumpka |
"outrages" aginst a family of freedmen was reported by Miss J.B. Peck |
7 |
--- |
male |
June 1866 |
Alabama |
Mobile |
--- |
shot by his employer for threatening to report his abusive conduct to the Freedmen's Bureau |
7 |
--- |
female |
June 1866 |
Alabama |
Montgomery |
--- |
she was severely burned by a police officer while imprisoned |
7 |
Richardson, Capt. C.C. |
male |
early/mid 1866 |
Georgia |
Thomas |
near Thomasville |
the Freedman's Bureau agent was shot at twice and wounded by a man whom he had fined |
14 |
McCall, Charles |
male |
July 3, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Robeson |
--- |
J.B. Cox, white, shot McCall in the left thigh |
7 |
Telfair, Josh |
male |
July 3, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Robeson |
--- |
T.N. Bone beat the freedman with a cane; the freedman did not show at the trial though it is not known if this was from fear or
due tothe nature of the injuries |
7 |
"Ballard" |
male |
ca. July 5, 1866 |
Virginia |
Isle of Wight |
near Windsor |
the freedman's home was broken into and he was shot, possibly fatally; his wife was also whipped and his child wounded in the attack |
7 |
Williams, ___ |
male |
ca. July 5, 1866 |
Virginia |
Henrico |
Richmond |
a white man started a disturbance in which another white man named Coll fired a shot at the freedman; the freedman was arrested; |
Coll was arrested by the Asst. Supt. of the Freedman's Bureau but acquitted by the Mayor7 |
Minifee, Minor |
male |
ca. July 6, 1866 |
Virginia |
Rappahannock |
--- |
the freedman was murdered by a white man who was acquitted |
7 |
Adams, floyd |
male |
ca. July 6, 1866 |
Virginia |
Augusta |
--- |
the black boy was assaulted and battered by a white man |
7 |
Smith, Nathaniel |
male |
July 7, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Cumberland |
--- |
assaulted by a small group of whites |
7 |
Aults, Renat |
--- |
July 7, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Cumberland |
--- |
assaulted by a small group of whites |
7 |
Coleman, ____ |
female |
ca. July 8, 1866 |
Virginia |
Henrico |
--- |
the freedwoman was hit in the head with the back of an axe by a white man and his son |
7 |
Dixon, Louisa |
female |
July 9, 1866 |
North Carolina |
New Hanover |
--- |
Dixon was beaten and Dr. Xerseas and Bruce King threatened to "blow her brains out" |
7 |
Meadley |
male |
ca. July 11, 1866 |
Virginia |
Botetourt |
--- |
the black boy had an "outrage" committed upon him by four white men |
7 |
Madison, Minor |
--- |
ca. July 11, 1866 |
Virginia |
Spottsylvania |
Fredericksburg |
assaulted by a white man with a hammer |
7 |
Huffman, Martha |
female |
July 16, 1866 |
North Carolina |
New Hanover |
--- |
Huffman was struck with a club by Hunter Carr, who may have been a soldier as action was "suspended during good behavior." |
7 |
--- |
female |
July 16, 1866 |
Alabama |
--- |
18 miles west of Tuscaloosa |
young black girl beaten to death by Washington and Greene McKinney |
7 |
--- |
--- |
July 18, 1866 |
Alabama |
Tuscaloosa |
near Tuscaloosa |
a man named Yerby set fire to a black church and then threatened to kill the freedman who saw him do it |
7 |
Walker, Andrew J. |
male |
July 20, 1866 |
North Carolina |
New Hanover |
Wilmington |
Billy James, white, struck the freedman with a brick |
7 |
McCormick, Hannah |
female |
July 21, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Robeson |
--- |
the freedwoman was beaten with clubs by Peter and Thomas Graham |
7 |
--- |
--- |
July 23, 1866 |
Alabama |
Morgan |
near Hartselle |
a white man named Cook murdered a freedmen |
7 |
--- |
female |
July 26, 1866 |
Alabama |
--- |
--- |
a man named Dunn beat a freedwoman severely; the trial was a "farce" |
7 |
--- |
female |
July 26, 1866 |
Alabama |
--- |
near Greenville |
Jas. Pryor "committed outrage" upon a freedwoman |
7 |
two black men |
male |
July 29, 1866 |
Virginia |
Prince William |
--- |
F. Fairfax was holding two black males against their will |
7 |
Bank, Ann |
female |
ca. July 29, 1866 |
Virginia |
Henrico |
Richmond |
the Mayor of Richmond discharged the case against a white man who had beaten the freedwoman |
7 |
--- |
male |
July 1866 |
Alabama |
--- |
near Greenville |
Jas. Pryor assaulted a freedman |
7 |
____, Demopolis |
male |
July 1866 |
Alabama |
--- |
--- |
the 13-year old boy was struck in the eye with a club by his employer |
7 |
Adams, Elizabeth |
female |
July 1866 |
Alabama |
--- |
--- |
beaten by a group of armed men and told to leave the county or be killed |
7 |
--- |
female |
July 1866 |
Alabama |
--- |
--- |
the sister of Elizabeth Adams was beaten and told to leave the county or be killed |
7 |
Franklin, ____ |
--- |
July 1866 |
Alabama |
--- |
--- |
tried to report the beatings of Elizabeth Adams and her sister by a group of armed men and was never heard from again |
7 |
--- |
--- |
July 1866 |
Alabama |
--- |
--- |
a person assisting Franklin in reporting crimes against Elizabeth Adams and her sister also was never heard from again |
7 |
____, Eve |
female |
July 1866 |
Alabama |
--- |
--- |
beaten along with her children by a Mrs. Prus |
7 |
____, Nancy |
female |
July 1866 |
Alabama |
--- |
--- |
Henry Calloway beat her with a "buck" wounding her severely in the head |
7 |
--- |
female |
July 1866 |
Alabama |
--- |
--- |
Lee Davidson tied up a freedwoman by her wrists and beat her severely |
7 |
____, Frank |
male |
July 1866 |
Alabama |
--- |
--- |
beaten and shot at by J. Howard and his nephew |
7 |
_____, Alfred |
male |
July 1866 |
Alabama |
--- |
--- |
Frank Pinkston cut him with a knife |
7 |
Sneethen, Jim |
--- |
July 1866 |
Alabama |
--- |
--- |
Jno. Black attempted to kill him with an axe. |
7 |
--- |
female |
July 1866 |
Alabama |
--- |
--- |
Jack McLeonard whipped a freedwoman "mercilessly" |
7 |
--- |
male |
July 1866 |
Alabama |
--- |
--- |
Louisa's husband was murdered by a white man |
7 |
Gillespie, Sancho |
male |
August 7, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Bladen |
--- |
assault and battery was committed against the freedman by Thomas Hurt |
7 |
Smith, Jno. |
--- |
August 7, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Bladen |
Elizabethtown |
William Sutton assaulted Smith; he was too badly injured to appear at trial so the judge discharged Sutton; the Bureau
representative was threatened with death if he tried to arrest Sutton |
7 |
Wartham, William |
male |
August 13, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Columbus |
--- |
Joseph Lunnden beat the freedman; Lunnden was arrested and fined |
7 |
Pierce, Randal |
male |
August 13, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Columbus |
--- |
Edward Bass attempted to kill Mr. Pierce by assaulting him; Bass was arrested and fined, but "bound by civil authority for his
good behavior" |
7 |
Covington, Teril |
--- |
August 13, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Richmond |
--- |
John Bairfield was tried for assault and battery against the freedman |
7 |
Kenion, Owen |
male |
August 16, 1866 |
North Carolina |
New Hanover |
--- |
a Captain M. Santon(?) attempted to kill the freedman |
7 |
Robinson, John W. |
male |
August 22, 1866 |
North Carolina |
New Hanover |
Wilmington |
Charlie Ellis beat the freedman |
7 |
Walker, Joe |
male |
August 22, 1866 |
North Carolina |
New Hanover |
Wilmington |
William Moore beat the freedman |
7 |
Perkins, Sam |
male |
August 23, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Brunswick |
--- |
the freedman was beaten by Stephen Ripitson |
7 |
Covington, David |
male |
August 23, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Richmond |
--- |
the freedman was assaulted and beaten by William Covington, white; a warrant for the man's arrest was issued |
7 |
Lewis, Benjamin |
male |
August 27, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Wayne |
--- |
Lewis, a discharged Union soldier, was brutally beaten by "four white ruffians" |
7 |
Holmes, Emily |
female |
August 27, 1866 |
Maryland |
Essex |
--- |
Holmes and her children were being held against their will by Meredith Brown |
7 |
Taylor, John |
male |
August 27, 1866 |
Michigan |
Ingham |
Mason |
the eighteen-year-old "mulatto" was hanged in a lynching for "murderous assault" after being seized from jail by a mob of
about 300 white men |
8, 12 |
Gast, Mary |
female |
August 28, 1866 |
North Carolina |
New Hanover |
Wilmington |
beaten by a white man named Sessman |
7 |
Eglan, Pvt. Nathan |
male |
August 30, 1866 |
Texas |
Marion |
Jefferson |
Deputy Marshall Jack Phillips murdered two US soldiers |
14 |
Bull, Pvt. John |
male |
August 30, 1866 |
Texas |
Marion |
Jefferson |
Deputy Marshall Jack Phillips murdered two US soldiers |
14 |
James, Minerva |
female |
August 1866 |
Texas |
Hopkins |
--- |
the freedwoman was seized from her home by five men and "brutally murdered" |
9 |
--- |
--- |
August 1866 |
Alabama |
Clarke |
--- |
one person was killed and two wounded as a "gang of ruffians" set fire to a black family's house and then shot at them as
they fled |
7 |
Shannon, Bill |
male |
ca Summer 1866 |
Maryland |
Calvert |
--- |
John Wilkinson threatened to strike Shannon for not calling him Master; Shannon pulled his pistol and threatened to shoot him if
he was struck; Wilkinson later brought a mob of whites to Shannon's church and attacked him and fired upon him as he tried to escape;
Shannon returned fire killing one of the mob; Shannon was then sentenced to five years for manslaughter despite a dozen black witnesses
who were present in the Church and saw what happened |
7 |
freedman #1 |
male |
Summer 1866 |
Mississippi |
--- |
District of Grenada |
four freedman were murdered |
14 |
freedman #2 |
male |
Summer 1866 |
Mississippi |
--- |
District of Grenada |
four freedman were murdered |
14 |
freedman #3 |
male |
Summer 1866 |
Mississippi |
--- |
District of Grenada |
four freedman were murdered |
14 |
freedman #4 |
male |
Summer 1866 |
Mississippi |
--- |
District of Grenada |
four freedman were murdered |
14 |
--- |
male |
September 3, 1866 |
Alabama |
Blount |
--- |
"murderous assault" on a former Union Soldier |
7 |
--- |
male |
September 12, 1866 |
Alabama |
Butler |
Greenville |
assault against a freedman including shooting at him |
7 |
Cobb, Griffin |
male |
September 12, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Caswell |
--- |
Cobb was assaulted and beaten by J.B. Blackwell who was taken into custody of the military authorities |
7 |
--- |
male |
September 14, 1866 |
Alabama |
--- |
--- |
the freedman was shot dead in a field while picking fodder |
7 |
--- |
male |
September 14, 1866 |
Alabama |
Tuscaloosa |
near Tuscaloosa |
allegedly abducted and murdered by a white man |
7 |
Covington, E. |
--- |
September 20, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Richmond |
--- |
Sandy Skipper committed assault and battery against the freedman |
7 |
Register, Sarah |
female |
September 20, 1866 |
North Carolina |
New Hanover |
Wilmington |
assaulted by James Smith |
7 |
Johnson, A.S. |
--- |
September 22, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Chowan |
--- |
Johnson was whipped by W. Hathaway |
7 |
Pigfoot, Martha |
female |
September 28, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Pender |
Rocky Point |
the freedwoman was tied and beaten with a piece of fence rail by George and John Orusbee |
7 |
--- |
male |
September 1866 |
Alabama |
Tuscaloosa |
near Tuscaloosa |
a freedman was shot and killed while at work |
7 |
--- |
male |
September 1866 |
Alabama |
Pike |
--- |
killed |
7 |
____, Demopolis |
female |
September 1866 |
Alabama |
--- |
--- |
freedwoman wounded in arms and head by employer in a clubbing (possible duplicate listing) |
7 |
Thompson, James |
male |
September 1866 |
Alabama |
--- |
--- |
the freeman was knifed in the chest and side by Dormer Thomas |
7 |
Thomas, Maj |
male |
ca. September 1866 |
Louisiana |
Caldwell |
Columbia |
Thomas' employer, Henry Duke, killed him |
14 |
--- |
--- |
September 1866 |
Kentucky |
Bourbon |
Paris |
lynched for attempted murder |
18 |
Kelly, Sandy |
--- |
October 1, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Pender |
Rocky Point |
James Orusbee struck Kelly with an axe with intent to kill |
7 |
Smith, Martha |
female |
October 12, 1866 |
North Carolina |
New Hanover |
--- |
the freedwoman was assaulted by Mary Smith, white |
7 |
Ledbetter, Washington |
male |
October 12, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Richmond |
--- |
James Madison struck Ledbetter three times with a club then told him to leave the county or be killed while his pistol was
drawn |
7 |
Walker, Sam |
male |
October 27, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Pender |
Long Creek |
the freedman was murdered, allegedly by Ned Walker, white |
7 |
Moseley, John |
male |
October 30, 1866 |
North Carolina |
New Hanover |
Wilmington |
a Mr. Bunting beat Moseley, then before that case could be brought to trial, had Mosely arrested for non-payment of a debt |
7 |
Carter, Albert |
male |
October 1866 |
North Carolina |
Sampson |
--- |
robbed of clothing by three white men who entered his home and threatened with violence if he told the authorities |
7 |
Walker, Mac |
male |
October 1866 |
North Carolina |
Harnett |
--- |
lynched for an unknown offense |
16 |
Evritt, Jerry |
male |
November 8, 1866 |
North Carolina |
Richmond |
--- |
Daniel Leester and daniel Skiper beat Evritt with a club cutting his head badly |
7 |
--- |
female |
November 29, 1866 |
Maryland/Virginia |
--- |
--- |
the grand-daughter of Pollie Driver was being illegally detained by threat of violence by Mr. Lowell |
7 |
____, Emma |
female |
November 1866 |
North Carolina |
Sampson |
--- |
David Sloan held 4 of Emma's children, aged from 8 to 13, from her without her consent |
7 |
Cooper, Henderson |
male |
November 1866 |
North Carolina |
Granville |
--- |
lynched for rape |
16 |
Owens, Amos |
male |
ca. November 1866 |
Loisiana |
Sabine/Natchetoches |
--- |
a Dr. McNorton and his two sons beat and shot Owens leaving him for dead while their friends stole his land leaving Owens'
family destitute |
14 |
Zook, Abraham |
male |
ca. November 1866 |
Mississippi |
Warren |
near Vicksburg |
the Broome family murdered two relatives |
14 |
Zook, Noah |
male |
ca. November 1866 |
Mississippi |
Warren |
near Vicksburg |
the Broome family murdered two relatives |
14 |
Ritchie, John |
male |
Fall 1866 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
the 13-year-old son of Hannah Ritchie was taken to Mississippi by John Robert; as of August 1868 he had still not been
returned |
7 |
McCallum, Ephraim |
male |
December 2, 1866 |
South Carolina |
Marlboro |
Bennettsville |
murdered by a group of white men with no action taken by the authorities |
7 |
Glover, Dennis |
male |
December 3, 1866 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Barnwell District |
he was assualted by 7 white men and no action came from the attempt to bring charges |
7 |
Glover, Mandy |
female |
December 3, 1866 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Barnwell District |
she was assualted by 7 white men and no action came from the attempt to bring charges |
7 |
Golston, Morris |
--- |
December 10, 1866 |
Alabama |
Butler |
--- |
shot by William Lee, son of R.S. Lee |
7 |
Wright, William |
male |
Decmeber 11, 1866 |
South Carolina |
--- |
20 miles from Georgetown |
Wright was shot by three white men |
7 |
Rimes, Jerry |
male |
December 13, 1866 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Edgefield District |
assaulted with a knife by Elbert Franklin, a white man who was at least brought up on charges |
7 |
Charles, Sally |
female |
December 13, 1866 |
South Carolina |
the freedwoman was tied and beaten with a hickory stick for about 30 blows adn forced to leave the area |
between Greenville and Laurens |
|
7 |
Jackson, Morris |
male |
December 15, 1866 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Brantsville (?) |
the freedman was cut on the face with a knife by a white man named Williamson |
7 |
Davis, Mary |
female |
December 17, 1866 |
South Carolina |
Georgetown |
Georgetown |
the freedwoman was shot by a Gabriel Bryan who left the area to escape prosecution |
7 |
--- |
--- |
December 17, 1866 |
Alabama |
Sumner |
Greenville |
Enoch Hicks led a band of people who burned a schoolhouse down |
7 |
--- |
--- |
December 17, 1866 |
Alabama |
|
|
Judge Bragg and his son beat a woman and her daughter, then pulled a gun on her husband James |
7 |
--- |
female |
December 17, 1866 |
Alabama |
|
|
the wife of a freedman named George was beaten by Kell Forrest |
7 |
--- |
female |
December 18, 1866 |
Alabama |
Butler |
--- |
brutally assaulted by R.S. Lee |
7 |
Golston, Peter |
male |
December 18, 1866 |
Alabama |
Butler |
--- |
assaulted with intent to kill by R.S. Lee |
7 |
May, Rinah |
male |
December 24, 1866 |
South Carolina |
Georgetown |
Georgetown |
May came under assault by E.C. Easterling |
7 |
McRae, Paul |
male |
December 24, 1866 |
South Carolina |
Georgetown |
Georgetown |
McRae was assaulted by F.W. McCasker |
7 |
Parker, Sylvia |
female |
December 29, 1866 |
North Carolina |
New Hanover |
Wilmington |
the freedwoman confronted her employer, John Lawrence about her payment owed by him and he struck her about four times with a
stick upon her head and arms |
7 |
Speer, Purvis |
male |
December 30, 1866 |
Mississippi |
Yazoo |
--- |
the British subject was murdered and his house burned |
14 |
--- |
male |
December 1866 |
Alabama |
Montgomery |
Montgomery |
freedman brought to the hospital after being killed by a shot to the head |
7 |
--- |
female |
ca. December 1866 |
Arkansas |
Jackson |
--- |
the colored woman was murdered |
14 |
Brinkley, Peter |
male |
ca. December 1866 |
Arkansas |
Saline |
near Benton |
two colored relatives were murdered by W. Bruns |
14 |
Brinkley, Thomas |
male |
ca. December 1866 |
Arkansas |
Saline |
near Benton |
two colored relatives were murdered by W. Bruns |
14 |
--- |
male |
ca. December 1866 |
Delaware (?) |
Dover |
--- |
a Negro boy was killed |
14 |
Stuart, Robert |
male |
ca. December 1866 |
Arkansas |
Arkansas |
--- |
murdered by Frank Williams |
14 |
King, Capt. ____ |
male |
ca. December 1866 |
--- |
Washington |
near Greenville |
killed |
14 |
African-American #1 |
male |
December 1866 |
North Carolina |
Greene |
--- |
lynched for rape along with five other African-Americans and one white |
16 |
African-American #2 |
male |
December 1866 |
North Carolina |
Greene |
--- |
lynched for rape along with five other African-Americans and one white |
16 |
African-American #3 |
male |
December 1866 |
North Carolina |
Greene |
--- |
lynched for rape along with five other African-Americans and one white |
16 |
African-American #4 |
male |
December 1866 |
North Carolina |
Greene |
--- |
lynched for rape along with five other African-Americans and one white |
16 |
African-American #5 |
male |
December 1866 |
North Carolina |
Greene |
--- |
lynched for rape along with five other African-Americans and one white |
16 |
African-American #6 |
male |
December 1866 |
North Carolina |
Greene |
--- |
lynched for rape along with five other African-Americans and one white |
16 |
McRoberts,Al |
male |
December 1866 |
Kentucky |
Boyle |
Danville |
lynched for attempted murder |
18 |
--- |
male |
1866 |
Louisiana |
--- |
near Shreveport |
killed in the road by a white man named Hersel _____ after a dispute over cotton |
2 |
--- |
male |
1866 |
Tennessee |
--- |
Knoxville |
a mob beat a freeman and only stopped due to the interference of a Northerner; survived |
1 |
--- |
female |
1866 |
Kansas |
Jefferson |
Oskaloosa |
the white female teacher was driven off for the crime of teaching black children |
10 |
Logan, Imson & wife |
male |
1866 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
Abbeville |
the two were beaten by Keith Ingraham and shot at and run out of Abbeville; they returned in June 1868 and reported him to the
Freedmen's Bureau |
7 |
--- |
male |
circa 1866 |
Alabama |
Bibb |
Centreville |
a federal soldier was killed by a Confederate veteran with an axe handle on a street corner |
15 |
--- |
male |
1866 |
North Carolina |
Pitt |
--- |
lynched because of "race prejudice" |
16 |
Williams, George |
male |
1866 |
Virginia |
Halifax |
--- |
Williams had been pursued by three white men and shot in the arm; he did not get them criminally tried, but was able to bring
civil action against them in May 1868 and win $250 in compensation |
7 |
--- |
female |
January 25, 1867 |
Alabama |
Montgomery |
near Montgomery |
freedwoman stabbed by a man named Ballard |
7 |
Evans, Brad |
male |
February 2, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Orange |
Chapel Hill |
assaulted by John Husky and John Scarlett |
7 |
Henis, Frank |
male |
February 2, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Orange |
Chapel Hill |
assaulted by John Husky and John Scarlett |
7 |
Henry, Sylvia |
female |
February 3, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Bladen |
--- |
Haywood Gailor struck Henry with a stick aobut 100 times and was going to shoot her until stopped by the lady of the house; he
had wanted her to live with him and she refused |
7 |
Waddell, Blackwell |
--- |
February 10, 1867 |
North Carolina |
New Hanover |
--- |
the freedperson's barn and food storage was burned most likely by "Regulators" |
7 |
Sneed, John |
male |
February 10, 1867 |
North Carolina |
New Hanover |
--- |
the freedperson's barn and food storage was burned most likely by "Regulators" |
7 |
Smith, Rosetta |
female |
February 13, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Washington |
Plymouth |
the freedwoman was choked and beaten by Benjamin F. Harrell |
7 |
Bebee (Beebe), Archibald |
male |
February 13 (or 11), 1867 |
North Carolina |
Cumberland |
Fayetteville |
Bebee was on his way to the courthouse to be tried for rape when Captain Toles(or Toler) shot him dead |
7, 16 |
Copeland, Asa |
--- |
February 15, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Wake |
--- |
the freedman was assaulted by Bryant Smith who was acquitted by a jury |
7 |
Kane, Isaac |
male |
February 18, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Washington |
Plymouth |
Pollard Hodge and Needham Hyman beat and fired upon Kane |
7 |
Smith, Phillip |
male |
February 18, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Harnett |
--- |
he was shot and then his horse stolen by a group of white men |
7 |
Smith, Charles |
male |
February 18, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Harnett |
--- |
he was shot and then his horse stolen by a group of white men |
7 |
Gupton, Bill |
male |
February 24, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Franklin |
--- |
Joshua Gupton shot the freedman with a shotgun wounding him in the shoulder and both arms |
7 |
--- |
male |
February 1867 |
Texas |
Leon |
--- |
after a freedman's home was burned by a mob, the bones of a ten-year-old boy were found in the ashes |
9 |
Trowbridge, ____ |
--- |
February 1867 |
Kentucky |
Boyle |
Danville |
lynched for stealing |
18 |
Brannick, Lizzie |
female |
March 9, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Alamance |
--- |
William McKeel attempted to rape the freedwoman |
7 |
Oates, Rebecca |
female |
March 14, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Sampson |
Clinton |
she was assaulted by Jerry Pearsall |
7 |
Rake, Ciley |
--- |
March 29, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Alamance |
Burlington (Company Shops) |
Rake was assaulted by Patterson Williams |
7 |
Bennett, Caroline |
female |
March 30, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Wake |
--- |
Wesley Goodwin attempted to rape the freedwoman |
7 |
Ruffin, Phillis |
female |
April 1, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Bertie |
--- |
she was whipped by half a dozen white men |
7 |
Perkins, Mrs. Jack |
--- |
April 1, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Halifax |
--- |
four white men broke into the house and beat Mrs. Perkins and "otherwise misused" her |
7 |
Williams, Harriet |
female |
April 4, 1867 |
North Carolina |
New Hanover |
--- |
Ned Baker raped the 16 year-old Williams |
7 |
Smith, Lucy |
female |
April 5, 1867 |
North Carolina |
New Hanover |
--- |
beaten and kicked by John D. Walker who illegally detained her five children afterward |
7 |
Green, Wilson |
male |
April 7, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Granville |
Oxford |
the freedman was assaulted by Thomas Wilson |
7 |
"Orange" |
--- |
April 7, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Washington |
Plymouth |
Alfred Watson struck the freedperson with several blows of an axe |
7 |
Sanders, Mike |
male |
April 19, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Johnston |
--- |
Sanders was assaulted with a knife by Harry and Ransom Durham |
7 |
Brunk, Manda |
--- |
April 22, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Robeson |
Lumberton |
Brunk was assaulted by Wesly Hartman |
7 |
Jenkins, Rachael |
female |
April 25, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Robeson |
Lumberton |
the freedwoman was assaulted by Daniel Tally |
7 |
Wood, Marsley |
--- |
April 25, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Robeson |
Lumberton |
Scotch Lewis assaulted the freedperson |
7 |
Washington, John |
male |
April 26, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Sampson |
Taylors Bridge |
he and his daughter were murdered by unknown parties |
7 |
Washington, Sarah Jane |
female |
April 26, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Sampson |
Taylors Bridge |
she and her father were murdered by unknown parties |
7 |
McNeil, Duncan |
male |
April 26, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Robeson |
Lumberton |
assaulted with a pistol by James McCormick |
7 |
Watson, Tom |
male |
April 29, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Northampton |
--- |
James N. Roney assaulted Watson with a four-pound weight adn the extent of injuries was unknown |
7 |
Marang, Peter |
male |
April 30, 1867 |
South Carolina |
Berkeley |
Mount Holly |
the freedman was shot at twice after a quarrel with a white foreman over the alleged theft of two barrels of turpentine |
7 |
Smith, Adam |
male |
April 1867 |
Kentucky |
Jessamine |
Nicholasville |
lynched for murder |
18 |
"Boz" |
male |
April 1867 |
Kentucky |
Jessamine |
Nicholasville |
lynched for murder |
18 |
Christian, Harry |
male |
May 3, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Wake |
--- |
the freedman was assaulted by Gilbert Allan |
7 |
Coleman, Henry |
male |
May 8, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Halifax |
--- |
Coleman was assaulted by Laurina Pender |
7 |
Perkins, John |
--- |
May 10, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Washington |
Plymouth |
Leonard Hassell struck Perkins with his fist |
7 |
____, Melinda Lou |
female |
May 14, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Wake |
--- |
assaulted by Easmes Estes |
7 |
Powell, Grizzy |
--- |
May 15, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Wake |
--- |
the freedperson was assaulted with a gun by Elizabeth Jolly |
7 |
Simonds, James |
male |
May 16, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Wake |
Raleigh |
Dudley Barnes assaulted Simonds with a knife |
7 |
Saddler, George |
male |
May 19, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Wake |
Raleigh |
assaulted by unknown white(s) |
7 |
Smith, Harvey |
male |
May 21, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Robeson |
Lumberton |
the apprentice was struck with a hoe handle by his employer Furney Pervat |
7 |
Peppers, Charles |
male |
May 21, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Robeson |
Lumberton |
Edward McQueen hit the freedman with a shovel |
7 |
Holt, Edward |
male |
May 21, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Johnston |
--- |
the freedman was assaulted by William Holt |
7 |
Wallace, William |
male |
May 22, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Northampton |
--- |
the freedman was assaulted by William Arrington |
7 |
Crenshaw, William |
male |
May 24, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Wake |
--- |
Toby Barow attempted to kill the freedman |
7 |
Anderson, Clara |
male |
May 25, 1867 |
South Carolina |
Greenville |
Greenville |
the young girl was struck by Calhoun Nichols "a mere boy" for refusing to call him "Mr. Nichols" |
7 |
Wesley, John |
male |
late May 1867 |
South Carolina |
Charleston |
Charleston |
after arguing with a white person on a narrow road over who would turn out their buggy, Wesley was arrested and held in jail
for 2 1/2 months with no trial before being released |
7 |
--- |
male |
Spring 1867 |
Kansas |
Johnson |
near Shawneetown |
the African-American was burned at the stake in a lynching for violating a white girl |
10 |
black #1 |
--- |
Spring 1867 |
Kansas |
Bourbon |
Fort Scott |
|
10 |
black #2 |
--- |
Spring 1867 |
Kansas |
Bourbon |
Fort Scott |
|
10 |
black #3 |
--- |
Spring 1867 |
Kansas |
Bourbon |
Fort Scott |
|
10 |
black #1 |
male |
Spring 1867 |
Kansas |
Dickinson |
--- |
three African-American soldiers were shot in a lynching on the charge of rape |
10 |
black #2 |
male |
Spring 1867 |
Kansas |
Dickinson |
--- |
three African-American soldiers were shot in a lynching on the charge of rape |
10 |
black #3 |
male |
Spring 1867 |
Kansas |
Dickinson |
--- |
three African-American soldiers were shot in a lynching on the charge of rape |
10 |
Jones, Nicholas |
male |
June 3, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Robeson |
Lumberton |
the boy was assaulted by John Taylor |
7 |
McLeary, Calvin |
male |
June 3, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Robeson |
Lumberton |
assaulted with a knife by J.M. McKinnon |
7 |
Miller, John |
male |
June 6, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Lenoir |
Kinston |
he was hung by unknown parties |
7 |
Miller, Mrs. John |
female |
June 6, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Lenoir |
Kinston |
she was shot by unknown parties |
7 |
Sessons, Hannah |
female |
June 10, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Hertford |
Harrelsville |
David Parker assaulted her with a stick |
7 |
Smith, Sarah J. |
female |
June 14, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Orange |
--- |
the freedwoman was assaulted by Andrew Compton |
7 |
Wall, William |
male |
June 22, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Richmond |
Rockingham |
James Brazington assaulted Wall with a knife |
7 |
Thompson, Reuben |
male |
June 22, 1867 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Charleston area |
the son-in-law of Thompson's employer made a request for Thompson to get timber; Thompson's contract specified that he did
not work on rainy days so he refused; Leslie Slawson, the son-in-law, tried to shoot Thompson but the gun was taken from him by
other family members |
7 |
Bernie, Thomas |
male |
June 27, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Robeson |
Lumberton |
Bernie was assaulted by a group of three white men |
7 |
McDonald, Daniel |
male |
June 28, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Cumberland |
Fayetteville |
Sandy McLean assaulted the McDonald with intent to kill and rob him |
7 |
Johnson, Abby |
female |
June 29, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Granville |
--- |
she was beaten with a piece of board by Egbert B.P. Kittrell |
7 |
black #1 |
male |
June 1867 |
Kansas |
Wyandotte |
--- |
the African-American was hanged and mutilated in a lynching for murdering a white man |
10 |
black #2 |
male |
June 1867 |
Kansas |
Wyandotte |
--- |
the African-American was hanged and mutilated in a lynching for murdering a white man |
10 |
Williams, Lizzie |
female |
July 1, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Pender |
Rocky Point |
assaulted by Dr. Miller |
7 |
Walker, Mack |
male |
July 1, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Pender |
Long Creek |
murdered by E.D. Walker who was discharged from the trial |
7 |
Covington, Judge |
male |
July 1, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Rockingham |
--- |
assaulted by Edward Covington |
7 |
Roberson, John |
male |
July 1, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Cabarrus |
--- |
J.R. Haill and Alexander Delmon assaulted the freedman |
7 |
Elliby, Dudley |
male |
July 3, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Rockingham |
--- |
the freedman was assaulted by Edward Stewart |
7 |
Brantley, Mary |
female |
July 5, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Nash |
--- |
her child was forcefully detained by Mack Brantley |
7 |
Allen, Ransom |
--- |
July 7, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Wake |
--- |
"murderous assault" committed against Allen by one Henry Allen |
7 |
Berry, Robert and Alfred |
male |
July 9, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Mecklenburg |
--- |
"felonious assault" committed against the freedmen by John Foster |
7 |
Buchanan, _____ |
male |
July 12, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Wake |
--- |
the son of Sam Buchanan was assaulted by John Dalyrimple |
7 |
Hobbs, Adam |
male |
July 12, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Orange |
--- |
Patterson Riley assaulted the freedman |
7 |
Boyd, Georgiana |
female |
July 12, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Mecklenburg |
Charlotte |
J.E. Britton attemted to rape the freedwoman |
7 |
Long, William |
male |
July 14, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Orange |
--- |
Long was assaulted by John Berry |
7 |
Adams, Niziah |
--- |
July 14, 1867 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Anderson District |
assaulted by a group of eight white men |
7 |
Roberson, Fanny |
female |
July 15, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Wake |
--- |
assaulted by Everett Roberson |
7 |
Evans, Jane |
female |
July 15, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Franklin |
Louisburg |
Washington Branch assaulted the freedwoman |
7 |
Green, Ben |
male |
July 15, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Wake |
--- |
Green was whipped and abused by York Bascont |
7 |
Woodson, Polly |
--- |
July 16, 1867 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Anderson District |
assaulted by Emery Conly |
7 |
Tyree, Elizabeth |
female |
July 18, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Guilford |
--- |
Hugh Wiley assaulted Tyree with intent to kill |
7 |
Trotter, Gabriel |
male |
July 22, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Person |
--- |
the freedman was assaulted by Thomas Brooks |
7 |
Hunt, Tampe |
--- |
July 25, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Williamston |
--- |
James Edmunds assaulted Hunt |
7 |
Smith, ____ |
male |
July 26, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Granville |
--- |
the son of Napy Smith was whipped and abused by Elias Davis |
7 |
Harris, James |
male |
July 25, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Cabarrus |
--- |
assaulted by a person named ____ Cass |
7 |
Bumpuss, Edmund |
male |
July 27, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Person |
--- |
assaulted by Thomas Beard |
7 |
Bumpuss, Dinah |
female |
July 27, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Person |
--- |
assaulted by John Rutter |
7 |
children of Squire Graham |
--- |
July 29, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Robeson |
Lumberton |
whipped by Malone Purcell |
7 |
Neal, Ned |
male |
July 29, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Wake |
--- |
assaulted by J. Dalyrymple |
7 |
Hatch, G. |
--- |
July 29, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Wake |
--- |
assaulted by J. Dalyrymple |
7 |
Hines, David |
male |
August 1, 1867 |
North Carolina |
New Hanover |
Wilmington |
Hines was assaulted by David Venters |
7 |
Hinton, Rosa |
female |
August 1, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Wake |
--- |
Alonzo Miles whipped the freedwoman |
7 |
Price, B. |
--- |
August 1, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Wake |
--- |
Alonzo Miles whipped the freedperson |
7 |
Faison, Wisdom |
--- |
August 5, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Duplin |
--- |
assaulted by Amos Quinn |
7 |
McGrew, H. |
--- |
August 6, 1867 |
North Carolina |
New Hanover |
Wilmington |
Charles Allen assaulted the freedperson |
7 |
Moore, Sgt. George W. |
male |
August 6, 1867 |
North Carolina |
New Hanover |
Wilmington |
the black soldier was "unnecessarily beaten by guards" |
7 |
Holmes, ____ |
female |
August 13, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Bladen |
--- |
the daughter of Andrew J. Holmes was beaten by Mitchell Jones |
7 |
Reads, ____ |
female |
August 13, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Gaston |
--- |
the daughter of Henry Reads was assaulted by Peter Winston |
7 |
Holt, Mary L. |
female |
August 13, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Alamance |
--- |
the freedwoman was assaulted by Thomas Hall |
7 |
Benson, Terry |
--- |
August 15, 1867 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Greenville District |
Benson was shot in the arm with a revolver by Taylor Clark |
7 |
McLean, Phillip |
male |
August 16, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Harnett/Cumberland |
Averasboro |
the freedman was assaulted by David Bintha |
7 |
Mudre, Lydia |
female |
August 17, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Chowan |
--- |
Lydia was whipped by Moses Hobbs |
7 |
Glendenning, P. |
--- |
August 18, 1867 |
North Carolina |
--- |
Albemarle Sound |
Wyatt Jordan was shooting at the freedperson though its unclear if they were wounded/killed/missed |
7 |
Freeland, Harvey |
male |
August 18, 1867 |
North Carolina |
--- |
Albemarle Sound |
Wyatt Jordan was shooting at the freedman though its unclear if they were wounded/killed/missed |
7 |
Turner, Thomas |
male |
August 20, 1867 |
South Carolina |
Greenville |
Greenville |
stabbed in the back by Wallace Williams who was sentenced to six months labor on the roads |
7 |
Sharp, Martha |
female |
August 21, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Edgecomb |
--- |
the freedwoman was assaulted by James Axom |
7 |
Comell, Taby |
male |
August 23, 1867 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Simpson Plantation |
Comell was assaulted and struck by his white employer during a dispute |
7 |
Blasingame, Berry |
--- |
August 25, 1867 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Tichens District |
the freedperson was beaten and scratched by Henry and Patrick Stigall |
7 |
Tubbs, Dumpey |
--- |
August 25, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Dare |
Nags Head |
assaulted by ____ Brown |
7 |
Allen, Ann |
female |
August 26, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Wake |
--- |
Ephraim Allen assaulter her intending to kill the freedwoman but was unsuccessful |
7 |
Hodge, Gaston |
--- |
August 27, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Wake |
--- |
Henderson Hodge shot at Gaston attempting to kill the freedperson |
7 |
Thompson, Hannah |
female |
August 28, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Wake |
--- |
the freedwoman was assaulted by John Mangnum |
7 |
Morris, Betsey |
female |
August 29, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Cabarrus |
Concord |
the freedwoman was assaulted by Richard Alexander |
7 |
African-American #1 |
--- |
August 1867 |
Kentucky |
Washington |
Mackville |
lynched |
18 |
African-American #2 |
--- |
August 1867 |
Kentucky |
Washington County |
Mackville |
lynched |
18 |
McCoy, Nelson/Wilson |
male |
September 4, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Robeson |
Lumberton |
McCoy was assaulted by a small group of whites |
7 |
Horn, Rafe |
--- |
September 4, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Anson |
Wadesboro |
James Bryan assaulted the freeman |
7 |
Hill, John Henry |
male |
September 5, 1867 |
North Carolina |
New Hanover |
Wilmington |
Joseph Newman kicked the freedman for asking for the pay due him for his services |
7 |
Register, Sarah |
female |
September 9, 1867 |
North Carolina |
--- |
--- |
she was beaten by James Smith who turned her out without her pay |
7 |
Leach, Elsy |
--- |
September 27, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Scotland |
Laurinburg |
assaulted by Duncan H. Jones |
7 |
Wallup, James |
male |
September 30, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Scotland |
Laurel Hill |
the freedman was assaulted with a gun by Harrison Seals |
7 |
Gilchrist, Lewis |
male |
September 30, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Scotland |
Laurinburg |
assaulted with a gun by Owen McLauren |
7 |
Docking, Alford |
male |
October 1, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Richmond |
Rockingham |
suffered excessive abuse from Peter Mason |
7 |
McQueen, Tony |
--- |
October 5, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Robeson |
Lumberton |
assaulted by John Alford |
7 |
Herndon, Wesley |
male |
October 5, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Orange |
--- |
James Barbee assaulted the freedman with intent to kill |
7 |
Smith, Thomas |
male |
October 7, 1867 |
North Carolina |
New Hanover |
Wilmington |
Smith was assaulted by Robert Gray |
7 |
Branch, Ruffin |
--- |
October 7, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Franklin |
Louisburg |
the freedperson was assaulted with a knife by Daniel Fuller |
7 |
Fryer, David |
male |
October 11, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Sampson |
--- |
William Wells Usher assaulted a relative of Fryer's attempting to kill them |
7 |
Williams, Alexander |
male |
October 16, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Wake |
Raleigh |
the freedman was assaulted by David Williams |
7 |
Rosseau, Horace |
male |
October 23, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Wilkes |
Wilkesboro |
he was assaulted with an axe by T. Wills |
7 |
Alston, Cooper |
male |
October 25, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Wake |
--- |
he was thrown from an N.C.R.R. train |
7 |
Love, Hector |
male |
October 25, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Robeson |
Lumberton |
Love was assaulted by John Graham |
7 |
Carter, Henry |
male |
October 26, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Mecklenburg |
--- |
assaulted and robbed by H.B. Chapman |
7 |
Crawford, George |
male |
October 26, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Richmond |
Rockingham |
assaulted with a gun and a club by C. and J. Everett |
7 |
York, Howard |
male |
October 1867 |
Virginia |
Caroline |
Port Royal |
the former U.S. soldier was allegedly killed by a "conservative Negro" over a political quarrel, though the man was acquitted at
trial |
7 |
Humphreys, Will |
male |
November 4, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Robeson |
Lumberton |
assaulted by Alvey Rogers |
7 |
Wallace, David |
male |
November 9, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Mecklenburg |
--- |
assaulted by G.L. Morris |
7 |
Michelson, Alick |
--- |
November 11, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Richmond |
--- |
assaulted with a club by Daniel B. Michelson |
7 |
Fellon, Charity |
--- |
November 15, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Chowan |
--- |
whipped by William J. Leary |
7 |
McNair, ____ |
female |
November 16, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Robeson |
Lumberton |
the wife of Martin McNair was assaulted by John McNair and their mule stolen |
7 |
Jones, James |
male |
November 18, 1867 |
North Carolina |
--- |
Lewis(?) |
assaulted with deadly weapons by C. Triplett and F. Hendricks |
7 |
McNair, Martin |
male |
November 20, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Robeson |
Lumberton |
assaulted by John McNair |
7 |
Usher, Julia |
female |
November 21, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Sampson |
--- |
she was assaulted with a club and a knife by David Freper |
7 |
Williams, Jack |
male |
November 22, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Warren |
Redding Depot |
Williams was murdered by A.J. Bowden |
7 |
Lowry, Levi |
male |
November 25, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Robeson |
Lumberton |
assaulted by Wesley Hartmon |
7 |
Thornton, Edwin |
male |
November 25, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Robeson |
Lumberton |
assaulted by Owen Norment |
7 |
Norcom, James |
male |
November 1867 |
North Carolina |
Washington |
--- |
lynched during a dispute with the landowner |
16 |
Davis, Edward |
male |
December 3, 1867 |
Virginia |
Fauquier |
--- |
Gustavus Creel hit Davis with a fire shovel, leaving his feet to roast in an ongoing fire for some time |
7 |
Pate, Henry |
male |
December 4, 1867 |
North Carolina |
Alamance |
Burlington |
Pate and another person were assaulted by Duncan Holmes who also had drawn "a deadly weapon" |
7 |
--- |
--- |
1867 |
Delaware |
Kent |
near Leipsic |
the black person was lynched by unknown means for burning their employer's barn |
8 |
male #1 |
male |
1867 |
California |
Colusa |
Colusa |
A "Spaniard" was hung, along with an "Indian," for rape |
14 |
male #2 |
male |
1867 |
California |
Colusa |
Colusa |
an Indian was hung, along with a "Spaniard," for rape |
14 |
Roundtree, _____ |
male |
ca. late 1867 to 1868 |
South Carolina |
York |
near Buffalo Creek |
the Klan went to the freedman's home and opened fire upon the building; they eventually shot Roundtree down as he tried to
escape and the brother of a man he had shot while defending himself against the mob slit his throat with a bowie knife |
13 |
Barbour, Charles W. |
male |
January 18, 1868 |
Virginia |
Fredericksburg |
Newtown |
Barbour was shot in the back while attempting to flee from two white men; he survived, but the two men had fled to the mountains
to escape the authorities |
7 |
Goldman, George |
male |
ca. January 21, 1868 |
Virginia |
York |
--- |
Goldman was shot at by two white men |
7 |
Anderson, ____ |
male |
January 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Abbeville District |
Winnie Anderson's son was taken into Alabama without her consent by Albert Hamlin |
7 |
Dickinson, Frank |
male |
January 1868 |
Tennessee |
Giles |
Lynnville |
the white "outspoken Republican" along with four freedmen were taken to the woods where Dickinson along with two of the
freedmen were beaten and whipped severely |
14 |
White, Jack |
male |
January 1868 |
Tennessee |
Giles |
Lynnville |
the freedmen was taken into the woods along with three others and white Republican Frank Dickinson where White, Dickinson, and
another freedman were beaten and whipped severely |
14 |
White, Thomas |
male |
January 1868 |
Tennessee |
Giles |
Lynnville |
the freedmen was taken into the woods along with three others and white Republican Frank Dickinson where White, Dickinson, and
another freedman were beaten and whipped severely |
14 |
Macklin, Jim |
male |
January 1868 |
Kentucky |
Franklin |
Frankfort |
lynched for rape |
18 |
--- |
male |
January 1868 |
Virginia |
Washington |
--- |
three white men attacked the freedman for being a "radical" though they had only jsut seen him walking while black; they beat
him with the butt end of a pistol |
7 |
--- |
male |
February 14, 1868 |
Virginia |
Smythe |
--- |
the freedman was stabbed by a white man who was found not guilty of attempted murder in a trial prejudiced against the victim;
the case was to be re-tried by the military authorities |
7 |
King, James |
male |
February 1868 |
Virginia |
Stafford |
--- |
the "boy" was severely whipped by a white man named James Moxley |
7 |
Holden, Jim |
male |
February 1868 |
Virginia |
Accomack |
Pungoteague |
Holden was shot by a white man for refusing to leave his kitchen when ordered to do so; it is unknown whether he survived or not |
7 |
Carter, Yancy |
|
March 5, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Greenville |
Greenville |
Carter was stabbed in the right buttock |
7 |
--- |
male |
April 4, 1868 |
Virginia |
Fauquier |
Warrenton |
the Klan broke into the freedman's house during the night and beat him |
7 |
--- |
--- |
April 4, 1868 |
Virginia |
Fauquier |
Warrenton |
the Klan broke into a school for freed children adn vandalized it |
7 |
Walker, Andrew |
male |
April 12, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Greenville District |
the freedman was beaten severely, cut, and threatened to be shot |
7 |
Hunter, Louis |
male |
April 14, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Pickens District |
laid across a barrel, whipped and beat with a pistol by a group of white men while in the custody of a constable |
7 |
Blye, William |
male |
April 18, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Pickens District |
beaten without cause at his own home |
7 |
Blye, Mary |
female |
April 18, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Pickens District |
beaten without cause at her own home |
7 |
Moore, Henry |
male |
April 19, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
a dozen white men broke into his house, stripped, and whipped him for being a Radical Republican |
7 |
Martin, Moses |
male |
April 19, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
a dozen white men broke into his house, stripped, and whipped him for being a Radical Republican |
7 |
Martin, Nelson |
male |
April 19, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
a dozen white men broke into his house, stripped, and whipped him for being a Radical Republican |
7 |
Pickens, Allen |
male |
April 21, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Greenville District |
wounded in the forehead with a pistol by two white men |
7 |
Duck, Samuel |
male |
April 21, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Greenville District |
shot at by two white men |
7 |
Rucker, Isaac |
male |
April 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
Abbeville |
the 12-year-old was kidnapped and taken to Georgia by Thomas Kofer |
7 |
--- |
male |
April 1868 |
Virginia |
Roanoke |
--- |
a Klan member shot at a freedman; brought to court the Klansman was fined $1.00 for unlawful shooting while the freedman was
fined $3.00 for breach of peace |
7 |
Thompson, Samuel |
male |
May 5, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Greenville |
Greenville |
the freedman was shot in the arm and "bowels" by Henderson Jenkins |
7 |
Wardlaw, Josh |
male |
May 17, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
Wardlaw was taken from his bed and whipped by a group of white men because of his political identity as a Republican; when he
ran off they shot at him three times |
7 |
Brown, Ruffin |
male |
May 19, 1868 |
Virginia |
Brunswick |
--- |
Brown and his friend Powell, both freedmen, were shot by a white man; one of the two died though it is unclear which one |
7 |
Powell, Phillip |
male |
May 19, 1868 |
Virginia |
Brunswick |
--- |
Powell and his friend Brown, both freedmen, were shot by a white man; one of the two died though it is unclear which one |
7 |
Thomas, James |
male |
May 25, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Greenville District |
beaten and threatened with hanging if he voted Republican |
7 |
Thomas, Henry |
male |
May 25, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Greenville District |
his house was assaulted and he was threatened with hanging if he voted Republican |
7 |
Thomas, Levi |
male |
May 25, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Greenville District |
his house was broken into and he was threatened with hanging if he voted Republican |
7 |
Bland, Lovelace |
male |
May 25, 1868 |
Virginia |
Chesterfield |
Manchester (today part of Richmond) |
Bland alleged that he received no renumeration for a year and seven months of services rendered when he brought the case before
the civil authorities |
7 |
Foster, Randal |
male |
May 30, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Abbeville District |
a constable and a group of white men broke into his house and took the 12-year-old to his "employer" who had gotten the boy to
sign a contract without his mother's knowledge |
7 |
Smith, Henry |
male |
May 1868 |
Virginia |
Charles City |
--- |
Smith, a freedman, was killed instantly by a white man at a fish fry after some angry words, when he threw a large piece of
iron at him; the killer was acquitted at trial |
7 |
Berry, Agnes |
female |
June 1, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
Abbeville |
beaten by James Ritchie |
7 |
Berry, Harriet |
female |
June 1, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
Abbeville |
beaten by James Ritchie |
7 |
Speed, Caesar |
male |
June 2, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
Abbevile |
David Miller "drove off and struck him" |
7 |
Howard, William |
male |
June 4, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
Abbeville |
assaulted with a pistol by B.L. Norton |
7 |
Joiner, Nelson |
male |
June 6, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
Abbeville |
his house was burnt down by the Klan |
7 |
Baskin, Benjamin |
male |
June 6, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Abbeville District |
shot at by James Reese |
7 |
Lee, Richard |
male |
June 10, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Abbeville District |
the freedman was assaulted by D. Dowden |
7 |
Palate, Maria |
female |
June 10, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
Abbeville |
Turner Ellis beat her and then kept her things when she left (unclear if this was an employment arrangement or a personal
relationship) |
7 |
Dunn, Andrew |
male |
June 20, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
Abbeville |
struck by I.J. Razor |
7 |
Scott, William |
male |
June 23, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Abbeville District |
the minor was whipped without his father's consent |
7 |
Scott, Pleasant |
male |
June 23, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Abbeville District |
the minor was whipped without hs father's consent |
7 |
Dunwood, M.A. |
female |
June 25, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
Abbeville |
the freedwoman was beaten by Joe Wilson |
7 |
Carr, Caroline |
female |
June 30, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Abbeville District |
beaten and kicked by James Belcher |
7 |
Moore, Charles and wife |
--- |
June 30, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Abbeville District |
the freedwoman was struck by a Mrs. Burnett and then her son attacked the two of them with a pistol |
7 |
--- |
male |
June 1868 |
Virginia |
Hanover |
--- |
a freedman was assaulted by a white man; the judge dismissed the case, all evidence to the contrary, and forced the court costs
on to the plaintiff |
7 |
Brown, Sarah |
female |
June 1868 |
Virginia |
Frederick |
--- |
a white man entered the freedwoman's bedroom while she was sleeping and began to kick her; she won the case in court but a re-hearing
was set |
7 |
Murry, Fanny |
female |
June 1868 |
Virginia |
Fauquier |
Upperville |
the freedwoman was beaten without cause; at the trial the defendant struck her again, and yet the judge still proclaimed him not
guilty and put the court costs onto Murry |
7 |
Williams, Mary |
female |
July 3, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Abbeville District |
the freedwoman was beaten with a hoe by Thomas Arnold |
7 |
Harrison, Peter |
male |
July 4, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Abbeville District |
beaten by John Dawkins |
7 |
two men and one child |
--- |
July 7, 1868 |
Louisiana |
St. Landry |
--- |
masked men killed three freedpersons and wounded two others. |
4 |
Jackson, Celina |
female |
July 9, 1868 |
Virginia |
Shenandoah |
Woodstock |
the freedwoman was beaten by a white man to intimidate her against testifying in a case against him as a witness to a potential
crime; she was also assaulted a second time by a different white man at roughly the same time for the same reason |
7 |
Plumber, Charles |
male |
July 12, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Abbeville District |
he was beaten for a half hour by John Ridge |
7 |
Alexander, George |
male |
July 13, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
assaulted for being a Republican by Nat Haynes |
7 |
Hampton, Wade |
female |
July 15, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Abbeville District |
beaten and abused by Pinceton Howard |
7 |
Huckerby, Foley |
female |
July 15, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Abbeville District |
beaten by George Marvin |
7 |
White, Virginia |
female |
July 15, 1868 |
Virginia |
Chesterfield |
near Manchester |
the freedwoman was struck by a white man three times with a stick and shot at twice for drawing water from his well |
7 |
Lines, Charlotte |
female |
July 17, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Abbeville District |
beaten by William McDaniel |
7 |
Lines, Amanda |
female |
July 17, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Abbeville District |
beaten by William McDaniel |
7 |
James, ____ |
male |
July 17, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Abbeville District |
the son of Levi James, 10, was beaten by a white man named Wright without his father's consent |
7 |
--- |
--- |
July 18, 1868 |
Virginia |
Wythe |
--- |
a schoolhouse for black children was burned down |
7 |
Davis, Albert |
male |
July 18, 1868 |
Virginia |
Prince William |
--- |
the freedman was beaten and left for dead by three white brothers, though he did recover; the three were on the loose having
left the courthouse without permission |
7 |
McIntosh, Jr. |
male |
July 19, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Abbeville District |
C.L. Cason beat him severely and had him sent to jail on the charge of attempted rape upon Cason's sister |
7 |
Ritchie, Elsie |
female |
July 20, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Abbeville District |
the freedwoman was beaten severely by John Godman |
7 |
Mickerson, Maria |
female |
July 20, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Abbeville District |
John Ramsey beat her and drove her off |
7 |
Coles, Scott |
male |
July 20, 1868 |
Virginia |
Pittsylvania |
--- |
two related white men picked a fight with the freedmen at the county court house hitting him with a stick and cutting him several
times with a knife |
7 |
Blackwell, Lizzie |
female |
July 22, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Abbeville District |
choked and "otherwise abused her"; it is not clear if she there was a personal relationship or if Lizzie had taken the last name
of her former master |
7 |
Johnson, Anderson |
male |
July 24, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Abbeville District |
Johnson was struck and driven off by Samuel Carter |
7 |
Smith, Joe |
male |
July 25, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
Abbeville |
the freedman was locked up and beaten badly by Louis Russell |
7 |
Maddison, Chey |
female |
July 29, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
beaten by James Taylor |
7 |
Hall, Andy |
male |
July 29, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
beaten for allegedly stealing a turkey by "Rep." Morrow |
7 |
--- |
--- |
July 1868 |
Kentucky |
Adair |
Columbia |
lynched for rape |
18 |
Pierce, William |
male |
July 1868 |
Kentucky |
Christian |
--- |
lynched |
18 |
4 women |
female |
July 1868 |
Virginia |
Prince Edward |
--- |
four women were singing in their own home when a white man yelled at them to stop; they refused so he entered the home and
began to beat all of them; he then drew a knife and slashed one of the women across the back of her hand; he was fined $15 |
7 |
--- |
--- |
July 1868 |
Virginia |
Franklin |
--- |
a political meeting of freedmen was broken up by a group of white men; no one was seriously hurt |
7 |
--- |
--- |
July 1868 |
Virginia |
Rockbridge |
Collierstown |
a political meeting of freedmen was broken up by a group of white men; no one was seriously hurt |
7 |
--- |
--- |
July 1868 |
Virginia |
Southampton |
--- |
a group of white men with guns, "some of the county's richest," entered the homes of about 20 freedmen and beat those present,
pretended to look for stolen property, adn threatened them with whippings adn murder in an attempt to keep them from voting in
upcoming elections |
7 |
Brooks, Charles |
male |
July 1868 |
Virginia |
Warwick |
--- |
the freedman was shot by a white man who was still at large in december of that year despite claimed intent to prosecute |
7 |
Alston, Seabrow |
male |
August 1, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
a few white men "claiming to be the K.K.K." called him out of his house and shot at him |
7 |
Jones, Simon |
male |
August 7, 1868 |
Virginia |
Greenville |
--- |
the freedman carried a letter on behalf of a white man to the deputy sheriff to inquire why he had been refused a license to run a
candy store; the deputy sheriff beat Jones with a stick |
7 |
Lines, Jane |
female |
August 8, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
she was assaulted by John Lines; it is unclear whether there was a personal relationship or whether she took the last name of
her former master |
7 |
Parker, Fannie |
--- |
August 8, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
Abbeville |
assaulted by James Moore |
7 |
Lewis, John |
male |
August 10, 1868 |
Virginia |
Hanover |
--- |
the freedman who was about in his late 60's gave some direction to a few workers in the garden of the home at which he was a servant; the
young man who was the son of the employer took offense to this and after some words hit Lewis in the back of the head with a hoe
killing him; the coroner's inquest stated the crime was without "malice or premeditation" |
7 |
Jones, Patron |
male |
August 11, 1868 |
Virginia |
Chesterfield |
Richmond |
Mr. Jones was shot and killed, and a number of other freedmen beaten, as the alleged result of having thrown rocks into the crowd of a
conservative speech; the man who shot Jones was acquitted despite having been caught by a police officer coming directly from where the
victim lay with the smoking gun in his hand |
7 |
Mansarinse, Edie |
female |
August 14, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
beaten by Edward Swenagan |
7 |
Moore, Sallie |
female |
August 17, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
Abbeville |
assaulted by Caroline Mays |
7 |
Shird, Henry |
male |
August 22, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
the freedman was shot in the right shoulder by Davis Stacy; the warrant issued was never executed |
7 |
Williams, George |
male |
August 22, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
Williams was beaten and threatened with murder by Benjamin Hunter |
7 |
Elliss, Alfred |
male |
August 25, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
shot at by Lee Russell the "town marshal" with no justification |
7 |
Halsenback, Joe |
male |
August 27, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
a group of white men broke into his home and assaulted him cutting his head; the freedman fought them off with an axe cutting
one of the assailants |
7 |
W.W. Lewis |
male |
August 27, 1868 |
Virginia |
Buckingham |
near Maysville |
the white man was sentenced to seven years for conspiring to incite freedmen to insurrection despite the eveidence being against
that verdict; a pardon was recommended for him by the military authorities |
7 |
James, Wylie |
male |
August 28, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
near Cokesburg |
shot dead by Davis Stacy when mistaken for his son-in-law |
7 |
Varner, Alvin |
male |
August 28, 1868 |
Virginia |
Buckingham |
near Maysville |
the white man was taken from from his bed by masked men and prepared for hanging; when the kidnappers stopped to flog a freedman they
had also taken, Varner managed to escape though they fired shots at him as he fled |
7 |
Snoddy, Anderson |
male |
August 28, 1868 |
Virginia |
Buckingham |
near Maysville |
the freedman was kidnapped during the night by masked men and whipped |
7 |
Clinkscales, Tom |
male |
August 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
Abbeville |
the freedman was beaten by Samuel Knox |
7 |
Parker, James |
male |
August 1868 |
Kentucky |
Pulaski |
Pulaski |
lynched |
18 |
Gibson, William |
male |
August 1868 |
Kentucky |
Washington |
--- |
lynched |
18 |
Gibson, John |
male |
August 1868 |
Kentucky |
Washington |
--- |
lynched |
18 |
Fields, Cabe |
--- |
August 1868 |
Kentucky |
Jessamine |
Keene |
lynched |
18 |
daughter of Wesley Edwards |
female |
August 1868 |
Virginia |
Pittsylvania |
--- |
the young girl was "ravished" by a white man after he had threatened her bed-ridden mother's life |
7 |
--- |
female |
ca. August 1868 |
Virginia |
Chesterfield |
Manchester |
a Justice of the Peace Morgan assaulted the woman, then tried the case himself putting the woman in jail overnight; he released
her the next day notifying her husband to pay the court costs |
7 |
Scott, Nancy |
female |
September 2, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
she was beaten by Jack Dooley |
7 |
Hunter, George W. |
male |
September 3, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
assaulted by two white men |
7 |
Martin, James |
male |
September 3, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
assaulted by two white men |
7 |
Buchanan, Jeff |
male |
September 4, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
William Talbert shot and killed him in a field |
7 |
Gordon, Adam |
male |
September 7, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
Abbeville |
assaulted by Lee Russell the "town marshall" |
7 |
Jones, Daniel |
male |
September 8, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
shot while in bed by Willis Craft and another man who had broken into his house at night |
7 |
Calhoun, Mans |
male |
September 9, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
Abbeville |
he was locked in a store and given over 100 lashes by John Thompson and Thomas Quarles |
7 |
Black, Isaac aka "Brown Isaac Lee" |
male |
September 10, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
--- |
shot in the shoulder and "bowels" by Stephen McKee |
7 |
--- |
--- |
September 10, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
residents of five houses were driven out by a group of about a dozen white men firing several shots who were looking for
Radical Republicans |
7 |
Lee, Arthur |
male |
September 14, 1868 |
Virginia |
Rappahannock |
--- |
the freedman was taken form his house about midnight and found the next morning beaten to death |
7 |
Halloway, Jacob |
male |
September 15, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
he was assaulted by Dr. William and George Wright with a knife and pistol, and had his life threatened |
7 |
White, Lavinia |
female |
September 16, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
Robin Gilmore beat the pregnant woman and attempted to hit her in the stomach with a hoe |
7 |
Roberts, Amelia |
female |
September 21, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
she was beaten, kicked an threatened with a pistol by Quitman and Foster Marshall |
7 |
Arnold, Mary and son |
--- |
September 23, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
the freedwoman and her son were beaten by Henry Cobb |
7 |
Wilson, Andrew |
male |
September 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
the freedman was shot in the hand and the back at night by parties unknown |
7 |
Glasgow, William |
male |
September 1868 |
Kentucky |
Warren |
--- |
lynched |
18 |
Cummins |
--- |
September 1868 |
Kentucky |
Pulaski |
--- |
lynched |
18 |
Cummins' daughter |
female |
September 1868 |
Kentucky |
Pulaski |
--- |
lynched |
18 |
Jackson, Reuben |
male |
September 1868 |
Virginia |
Lynchburg |
--- |
Jackson had his throat cut by two white men; he survived but was under a doctor's care for four months; the two men were found guilty but had to
pay fines of only $100 and $50, respectively |
7 |
--- |
--- |
September 1868 |
Virginia |
Accomack |
Modest Town |
a Freedmen's church was burned down |
7 |
Pierce, Anthony |
male |
September 1868 |
Virginia |
Hanover |
--- |
the former Union cavalry soldier was stabbed by a white man because of that status; the wound was 3 inches long and 4 inches deep |
7 |
Runnells, Milton |
male |
October 8, 1868 |
Virginia |
Pittsylvania |
--- |
a white man lashed the freedman thirty times with a whip for alleged lies that were told about him by the freedman |
7 |
Chase, Judge Valentine |
male |
October 17, 1868 |
Louisiana |
St. Mary |
Franklin |
publicly assassinated |
4 |
Pope, Col. Henry |
male |
October 17, 1868 |
Louisiana |
St. Mary |
Franklin |
publicly assassinated |
4 |
Talbert, Frank |
male |
October 28, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
near Child's Box |
he was stopped at night by the Klan and forced to swear that he would vote the Democratic ticket |
7 |
Taylor, James |
male |
October 30, 1868 |
Virginia |
Surrey |
Bacon's Castle |
the white teacher was taken from his home late at night and beaten by four white men and told to leave the county; the next
night his house was burned down; Taylor went before a magistrate before he left the county, but he refused to take any action |
7 |
Laws, Terry |
--- |
October 1868 |
Kentucky |
Jessamine |
Nicholasville |
lynched |
18 |
Ryan, James |
male |
October 1868 |
Kentucky |
Jessamine |
Nicholasville |
lynched |
18 |
Cash, Jacob |
male |
November 1, 1868 |
Virginia |
Bedford |
--- |
after a row about the freedman being too loud, a white assailant threw a hatchet at him knocking him off the canal boat they
were on; when they reached him he was already dead, the hatchet apparently hitting him behind the ear |
7 |
--- |
--- |
November 2, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
near Cokesburg |
a group of white men broke into a house and destroyed the Republican tickets for election distribution the following day |
7 |
Marshall, Anthony |
male |
November 3, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Aiken or Colleton |
White Hall |
Marshall was killed in a riot for trying to exercise his right to vote; 5 others were wounded, and at least one more beaten |
7 |
--- |
male |
November 3, 1868 |
South Carolina |
McCormick |
Calhoun's Mill |
the unknown person was wounded by a pistol shot when a party of men shot up an area to keep Freedmen from voting |
7 |
Jones, Jake |
male |
November 3, 1868 |
South Carolina |
--- |
near Moseley's (?) |
the elderly man, estimated at about 75, was killed in his home at night while trying to escape from assailants |
7 |
--- |
--- |
November 5, 1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
near Child's Box |
the Klan came after a few men at night stealing a pistol from one of their houses while they were in the woods hiding |
7 |
Parker, Mason |
male |
November 22, 1868 |
South Carolina |
McCormick |
Long Cane |
he was driven off from his home having had to lay in the woods at night for a month because of Klan visits |
7 |
Powell, Jacob |
male |
November 23, 1868 |
Virginia |
Hanover |
--- |
the freedman was shot with a shotgun by a white man after an altercation with him; Powell survived but lost eyesight in one
eye; the shooter turned himself in to the court; he was sentenced to a one cent fine and 12 hours in jail |
7 |
--- |
male |
November 1868 |
North Carolina |
Alamance |
--- |
lynched for an unknown offense |
16 |
unnamed African-American |
--- |
November 1868 |
Kentucky |
Madison |
Richmond |
lynched |
18 |
Pollard, Mrs. Anthony |
female |
November 1868 |
Virginia |
Stafford |
--- |
Mrs. Pollard was assaulted by a white man; her husband brought the case to a grand jury who refused to indict the man; the
foreman of the jury stated afterward that the assailant "only wanted to do the same to her as a husband would" |
7 |
Parker, Jack |
male |
November 1868 |
Virginia |
Hanover |
--- |
the freedman was stabbed by a white man whom the grand jury failed to find a true bill against despite evidence |
7 |
Blair, William |
male |
December 1868 |
Alabama |
Madison |
near Vienna |
nine horsemen came to his home and beat the freedman; taking him over a nearby hill they tortured him by cutting deep crosses into
his feet, calves, and thighs; he eventually died from the wounds |
13 |
unnamed African-American #1 |
--- |
December 1868 |
Kentucky |
Union |
--- |
lynched |
18 |
unnamed African-American #2 |
--- |
December 1868 |
Kentucky |
Union |
--- |
lynched |
18 |
unnamed African-American |
--- |
December 1868 |
Kentucky |
Union |
Morganfield |
lynched |
18 |
Jackson, Andrew |
male |
December 1868 |
Virginia |
Hanover |
--- |
a white man beat the freedman over the head with a stick |
7 |
Shaffner, T.M. |
male |
abt 1868 |
North Carolina |
--- |
--- |
the Republican state senator was run out of the state after his bill, which would allow the state to use the militia to suppress
the Klan, had passed |
6 |
Freeman, Nelson |
male |
1868 |
South Carolina |
Abbeville |
--- |
Freeman was taken from his bed and whipped by a group of white men because of his political identity as a Republican |
7 |
--- |
--- |
1868 |
South Carolina |
Greene |
--- |
after ex-slaves filed over 1,800 lawsuits against their former masters to earn wages for their work the past season, whites
burnt down the courthouse to get rid of the lawsuits |
15 |
Hinds, James R. |
--- |
1868 |
Arkansas |
--- |
--- |
the Arkansas Congressman was assassinated during that year's election campaign |
17 |
African-American #1 |
male |
January 24, 1869 |
North Carolina |
Lenoir |
--- |
lynched for robbery with three other African-Americans |
16 |
African-American #2 |
male |
January 24, 1869 |
North Carolina |
Lenoir |
--- |
lynched for robbery with three other African-Americans |
16 |
African-American #3 |
male |
January 24, 1869 |
North Carolina |
Lenoir |
--- |
lynched for robbery with three other African-Americans |
16 |
African-American #4 |
male |
January 24, 1869 |
North Carolina |
Lenoir |
--- |
lynched for robbery with three other African-Americans |
16 |
Bradford, Albert |
male |
January 1869 |
Kentucky |
Scott |
--- |
lynched |
18 |
Blue, ___ |
female |
February 1869 |
North Carolina |
Moore |
--- |
the child was lynched based on their father's testimony for an unknown offense along with their four siblings and their
mother |
16 |
Blue, ___ |
--- |
February 1869 |
North Carolina |
Moore |
--- |
the child was lynched based on their father's testimony for an unknown offense along with their four siblings and their
mother |
16 |
Blue, ___ |
--- |
February 1869 |
North Carolina |
Moore |
--- |
the child was lynched based on their father's testimony for an unknown offense along with their four siblings and their
mother |
16 |
Blue, ___ |
--- |
February 1869 |
North Carolina |
Moore |
--- |
the child was lynched based on their father's testimony for an unknown offense along with their four siblings and their
mother |
16 |
Blue, ___ |
--- |
February 1869 |
North Carolina |
Moore |
--- |
the child was lynched based on their father's testimony for an unknown offense along with their four siblings and their
mother |
16 |
Blue, ___ |
female |
February 1869 |
North Carolina |
Moore |
--- |
the woman was lynched based on her husband's testimony for an unknown offense along with her five children |
16 |
unnamed child |
--- |
March 1869 |
North Carolina |
Alamance |
--- |
lynched for an unknown offense |
16 |
Bratcher, George |
male |
March 1869 |
Kentucky |
Garrard |
--- |
lynched |
18 |
Stephens, John W. |
male |
May 21, 1869 (1870) |
North Carolina |
Caswell |
--- |
the white State Senator was killed after a political meeting, likely by the Klan,for being a Republican |
1, 6, 16 |
Jones, Amos |
male |
May 28, 1869 |
North Carolina |
Jones |
--- |
the African-American was lynched for "political activity" |
16 |
Colgrove, O.R. |
male |
May 28, 1869 |
North Carolina |
Jones |
--- |
the white man was lynched for "political activity" |
16 |
Perry, John |
--- |
May 1869 |
Kentucky |
Mercer |
Nevada |
lynched |
18 |
--- |
male |
June 29, 1869 |
Utah |
Weber |
Uintah |
the African-American was shot and hanged in a lynching at a railroad camp because he was "a damned nigger" |
8, 11 |
--- |
male |
July 1869 |
North Carolina |
Orange |
--- |
lynched for arson |
16 |
Bolling, George |
male |
July 1869 |
Kentucky |
Mercer |
Harrodsburg |
lynched |
18 |
Morrow, Dan |
male |
August 7, 1869 |
North Carolina |
Orange |
--- |
lynched for arson |
16 |
Morrow, Jeff |
male |
August 7, 1869 |
North Carolina |
Orange |
--- |
lynched for arson |
16 |
Shepperd, M.L. |
male |
Augusy 18, 1869 |
North Carolina |
Lenoir |
--- |
the white man was lynched for "political activity" |
16 |
--- |
male |
August 1869 |
North Carolina |
Orange |
--- |
lynched for an unknown offense |
16 |
Crowders, James |
male |
August 1869 |
Kentucky |
Marion |
Lebanon |
lynched |
18 |
Cash |
--- |
September 1869 |
Kentucky |
Lincoln |
--- |
lynched |
18 |
Coffey |
--- |
September 1869 |
Kentucky |
Lincoln |
--- |
lynched |
18 |
Mosteran, John |
male |
September 1869 |
Kentucky |
Lincoln |
--- |
lynched |
18 |
Rose, George |
male |
October 1869 |
Kentucky |
Madison |
--- |
lynched |
18 |
--- |
male |
October 1869 |
Maryland |
Prince George |
near Marlboro |
the colored male was arrested after committing an "outrage" on a young lady; on the way to the county seat a group of 20 men,
after a firefight with the Constable transporting him, was hanged from an oak tree |
14 |
Searcy, Frank |
male |
November 1869 |
Kentucky |
Madison |
Richmond |
lynched for murder |
18 |
Wright, Woods |
male |
December 1869 |
North Carolina |
Orange |
--- |
lynched for arson |
16 |
Guy, Cyrus |
male |
December 1869 |
North Carolina |
Orange |
--- |
lynched for arson |
16 |
unnamed child |
--- |
December 1869 |
North Carolina |
Alamance |
--- |
lynched for an unknown offense |
16 |
unnamed African-American #1 |
male |
December 1869 |
Kentucky |
Graves |
Boydsville |
lynched for rape |
18 |
unnamed African-American #2 |
male |
December 1869 |
Kentucky |
Graves |
Boydsville |
lynched for rape |
18 |
unnamed African-American |
--- |
December 1869 |
Kentucky |
Madison |
Richmond |
lynched |
18 |
Corliss, Alonzo B. |
male |
1869 |
North Carolina |
--- |
--- |
the "crippled Northern-born Quaker" was driven from the state by the Klan for teaching freedmen and women |
1 |
Lewis, A.D. |
male |
1869 |
North Carolina |
--- |
--- |
struck in the face three times for attempting to have his children treated equally to white children; survived |
1 |
Colby, Abram |
male |
1869 |
Georgia |
Greene |
--- |
65 members of the Klan forced him into the woods, stripped him, and beat him for three hours; he had organized a branch
of Georgia's Equal Rights Association; survived |
1 |
Moore, George |
male |
1869 |
Alabama |
--- |
--- |
beaten at his home by the Klan for voting the radical ticket; survived |
1 |
--- |
female |
1869 |
Alabama |
--- |
--- |
the "young girl" was "ravished" by the Klan while visiting Geroge Moore's home; survived |
1 |
neighbor of George Moore |
--- |
1869 |
Alabama |
--- |
--- |
"wounded" by the Klan the day they accosted George Moore |
1 |
--- |
male |
1869 |
Georgia |
--- |
--- |
the Klan murdered a blacksmith who refused to work for a white man without backpay for previous labor |
1 |
--- |
male |
1869 |
Georgia |
--- |
--- |
the Klan lynched a freedman and his wife |
1 |
--- |
female |
1869 |
Georgia |
--- |
--- |
the Klan lynched a freedman and his wife |
1 |
--- |
--- |
1869 |
Tennessee |
--- |
--- |
an entire freed family was put to the lash for the alleged poisoning of a neighbor's horse |
1 |
Cogden, Lewis |
male |
1869 |
North Carolina |
Greene |
--- |
lynched for stealing |
16 |
Sims, Jim |
male |
January 1870 |
Kentucky |
Madison |
Richmond |
lynched |
18 |
Fields, Chas |
male |
January 1870 |
Kentucky |
Fayette |
--- |
lynched |
18 |
unnamed African-American #1 |
--- |
January 1870 |
Kentucky |
Washington |
Springfield |
lynched |
18 |
unnamed African-American #2 |
--- |
January 1870 |
Kentucky |
Washington |
Springfield |
lynched |
18 |
Simms |
--- |
January 1870 |
Kentucky |
Madison |
Kingston |
lynched |
18 |
Outlaw, Wyatt |
male |
February 26, 1870 |
North Carolina |
Alamance |
--- |
lynched for "political activity" |
16 |
Byrom, R.L. |
--- |
February 1870 |
Kentucky |
Madison |
Richmond |
lynched |
18 |
Puryear, William |
male |
March 1870 |
North Carolina |
Alamance |
--- |
lynched for "political activity" |
16 |
Hyatt |
--- |
April 1870 |
Kentucky |
Lincoln |
--- |
lynched |
18 |
Perry |
--- |
April 1870 |
Kentucky |
Garrard |
Lancaster |
lynched |
18 |
Lambert, Sam |
male |
April 1870 |
Kentucky |
Mercer |
--- |
lynched |
18 |
unnamed African-American |
--- |
May 1870 |
Kentucky |
Muhlenburgh |
Greenville |
lynched |
18 |
Smith, William |
male |
mid-June 1870 |
Kansas |
Leavenworth |
Leavenworth |
the activist was murdered by bartender Jake Cerf suring an argument about the bartender's discriminatory ways |
10 |
unnamed African-American #1 |
--- |
August 1870 |
Kentucky |
Mercer |
Harrodsburg |
lynched |
18 |
unnamed African-American #2 |
--- |
August 1870 |
Kentucky |
Mercer |
Harrodsburg |
lynched |
18 |
unnamed African-American #3 |
--- |
August 1870 |
Kentucky |
Mercer |
Harrodsburg |
lynched |
18 |
unnamed African-American #4 |
--- |
August 1870 |
Kentucky |
Mercer |
Harrodsburg |
lynched |
18 |
Parker, James |
male |
August 1870 |
Kentucky |
Woodford |
Versailles |
lynched for being a Republican |
18 |
Turpin, William |
male |
August 1870 |
Kentucky |
Woodford |
Versailles |
lynched for being a Republican |
18 |
Timberlake,Frank |
male |
August 1870 |
Kentucky |
Fleming |
Flemingburg |
lynched |
18 |
Simes, Mrs. John |
female |
September 1870 |
Kentucky |
Henry |
--- |
lynched because her husband was a Republican |
18 |
Williams, Oliver |
male |
September 1870 |
Kentucky |
Madison |
Richmond |
lynched |
18 |
George |
--- |
December 1870 |
Kentucky |
Harrison |
Cynthiana |
lynched for rape |
18 |
unnamed African-American #1 |
--- |
December 1870 |
Kentucky |
Fayette |
--- |
lynched |
18 |
unnamed African-American #2 |
--- |
December 1870 |
Kentucky |
Fayette |
--- |
lynched |
18 |
--- |
female |
1870 |
Alabama |
--- |
--- |
the woman was beaten by a group of whites; afterward she was forced to raise $16.45 for court costs before the judge
threw out the case and threatened the woman with jail |
1 |
Burke, Richard |
male |
1870 |
Alabama |
Sumter |
--- |
the Georgia legislator, minister, and Union League organizer was killed by the Klan for having "great influence over people of
his color" |
1, 19 |
Dupree, Jack |
male |
1870(?) |
Mississippi |
Monroe |
--- |
had his throat cut and was disemboweled in front of his wife |
1 |
Flowers, Andrew |
male |
1870 |
Tennessee |
--- |
Chattanooga |
whipped after winning a local election over a white candidate; survived |
1 |
Luke, William |
male |
1870 |
Alabama |
--- |
Cross Plains |
the Irish-born teacher of former slaves was lynched along with four black men |
1 |
freedman #1 |
male |
1870 |
Alabama |
--- |
Cross Plains |
lynched along with three other freedmen and an Irish teacher |
1 |
freedman #2 |
male |
1870 |
Alabama |
--- |
Cross Plains |
lynched along with three other freedmen and an Irish teacher |
1 |
freedman #3 |
male |
1870 |
Alabama |
--- |
Cross Plains |
lynched along with three other freedmen and an Irish teacher |
1 |
freedman #4 |
male |
1870 |
Alabama |
--- |
Cross Plains |
lynched along with three other freedmen and an Irish teacher |
1 |
Bellups, Marion |
male |
1870 |
Georgia |
--- |
--- |
whipped along with his pregnant wife |
1 |
Bellups, Mrs. |
female |
1870 |
Georgia |
--- |
--- |
the white woman was whipped while pregnant with her freedman husband's baby; they then jailed the woman and a
child of hers from a previous marriage |
1 |
unnamed African American #1 |
--- |
1870 |
Kentucky |
Graves |
nearMayfield |
lynched |
18 |
unnamed African-American #2 |
--- |
1870 |
Kentucky |
Graves |
near Mayfield |
lynched |
18 |
unnamed African-American #3 |
--- |
1870 |
Kentucky |
Graves |
near Mayfield |
lynched |
18 |
unnamed African-American #4 |
--- |
1870 |
Kentucky |
Graves |
near Mayfield |
lynched |
18 |
unnamed African-American #5 |
--- |
1870 |
Kentucky |
Graves |
near Mayfield |
lynched |
18 |
unnamed African-American #6 |
--- |
1870 |
Kentucky |
Graves |
near Mayfield |
lynched |
18 |
Skates, ____ |
female |
January 1871 |
South Carolina |
York |
--- |
Skates was punished for allowing three black men to hide themselves in her home when the Klan was after them; the men mixed a
batch of tar and lime and poured it into her vagina |
13 |
Moss, Red John |
male |
January 1871 |
South Carolina |
York |
--- |
whipped by the Klan |
13 |
Wright, John |
male |
January 1871 |
South Carolina |
York |
--- |
whipped by the Klan |
13 |
Wright, Jake |
male |
January 1871 |
South Carolina |
York |
--- |
whipped by the Klan |
13 |
unnamed African-American |
--- |
January 1871 |
Kentucky |
Fayette |
Lexington |
lynched |
18 |
Cathcart, Andrew |
male |
March 11, 1871 |
South Carolina |
York |
--- |
fifteen to twenty Klansmen whipped the Republican, land-owning freedman and beat him with a pistol; they also tried to burn a
building on his property that was used as a school for black children |
13 |
Winsmith, Dr. John |
male |
March 1871 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Spartanburg |
the Unionist was wounded by the Klan |
1 |
Williams, Jim |
male |
March 1871 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Spartanburg |
the black militia leader was hung |
1 |
--- |
male |
April 29, 1871 |
North Carolina |
Chatham |
--- |
lynched because of "race prejudice" |
16 |
--- |
--- |
April 29,1871 |
North Carolina |
Chatham |
--- |
lynched because of "race prejudice" |
16 |
Weston, Silas |
male |
May 1871 |
North Carolina |
Rutherford |
--- |
Weston and three of his children were lynched because of "race prejudice" |
16 |
Weston, child #1 |
male |
May 1871 |
North Carolina |
Rutherford |
--- |
Silas Weston and three of his children were lynched because of "race prejudice" |
16 |
Weston, child #2 |
male |
May 1871 |
North Carolina |
Rutherford |
--- |
Silas Weston and three of his children were lynched because of "race prejudice" |
16 |
Weston, child #3 |
male |
May 1871 |
North Carolina |
Rutherford |
--- |
Silas Weston and three of his children were lynched because of "race prejudice" |
16 |
Johnson, Harry |
male |
August 1871 |
Kentucky |
Franklin |
Frankfort |
lynched for rape |
18 |
Washington, Henry |
male |
August 1871 |
Kentucky |
Franklin |
Frankfort |
lynched for murder |
18 |
unnamed African-American |
male |
August 1871 |
Kentucky |
Union |
Morganfield |
lynched for rape |
18 |
High, Zeke |
male |
September 29, 1871 |
Alabama |
Sumter |
Livingston |
High, an African-American, was taken from jail by a group of armed men and summarily shot "worse than any piece of flesh I ever saw" according
to his jailer Allen E. Moore |
14 |
Johnson, George |
male |
November 1871 |
Indiana |
Clark |
--- |
the African-American was hanged in a lynching for the murder of the Park family |
8 |
Taylor, Squire |
male |
November 1871 |
Indiana |
Clark |
--- |
the African-American was hanged in a lynching for the murder of the Park family |
8 |
Davis, Charles |
male |
November 1871 |
Indiana |
Clark |
--- |
the African-American was hanged in a lynching for the murder of the Park family |
8 |
Duncan, George |
male |
December 1871 |
Kentucky |
Bracken |
Brookville |
lynched for murder |
18 |
Taylor, Richard |
male |
1871 |
Kentucky |
Lincoln |
Crab Orchard |
lynched in order to extort evidence |
18 |
unnamed African-American |
--- |
1871 |
Kentucky |
Franklin |
--- |
lynched |
18 |
Coleman, William |
male |
ca. 1871 |
Mississippi |
Noxubee |
Macon |
the black, self-professed radical Republican was beaten, cut, and whipped severely by the Klan |
14 |
Hill, Elias |
male |
1871 |
South Carolina |
--- |
Spartanburg |
the black teacher and minister was whipped and beaten; he thought his status as a cripple and dwarf would protect him from
harm; survived |
1 |
Black Republican #1 |
male |
1871 |
Louisiana |
Grant |
near Colfax |
Sheriff Columbus Nash led a mob that set fire to the home of two black Republican officeholders. As the men attempted to
escape the flames they were shot. One of the men died, and the other survived by playing dead. |
2 |
Black Republican #2 |
male |
1871 |
Louisiana |
Grant |
nearColfax |
Sheriff Columbus Nash led a mob that set fire to the home of two black Republican officeholders. As the men attempted to
escape the flames they were shot. One of the men died, and the other survived by playing dead. |
2 |
Bascom, Sam |
male |
October 1872 |
Kentucky |
Bath |
Owingsville |
lynched for arson |
18 |
Hawkins, Samuel |
male |
November 1872 |
Kentucky |
Fayette |
--- |
lynched for being a Republican |
18 |
Hawkins, Mrs. Samuel |
female |
November 1872 |
Kentucky |
Fayette |
--- |
lynched for being the wife of a Republican |
18 |
Hawkins' daughter |
female |
November 1872 |
Kentucky |
Fayette |
--- |
lynched for being the daughter ofa Republican |
18 |
Wadlington, John |
male |
November 1872 |
Kentucky |
Hopkins |
Madisonville |
lynched for being a Republican |
18 |
Branson, Ross |
male |
November 1872 |
Kentucky |
Ballard |
Blaudville |
lynched for rape |
18 |
McKinney, Jesse |
male |
April 5, 1873 |
Louisiana |
Grant |
near Colfax |
Shot in the head by a white posse at his home in front of his wife and children. |
2 |
unnamed African-American |
male |
April 1873 |
Kentucky |
Mason |
Minerva |
lynched for rape |
18 |
Curd, Bob |
male |
April 1873 |
Kentucky |
Mercer |
Harrodsburg |
lynched for rape |
18 |
--- |
male |
June 1873 |
Kansas |
Ford |
Dodge City |
an African-American was lynched |
10 |
--- |
male |
early July 1873 |
Kansas |
Ford |
Dodge City |
an African-American was shot in the head and lungs; it is unknown if they survived or not |
10 |
Wilson, Lewis |
male |
July 1873 |
Kentucky |
Owen |
Gratz |
lynched |
18 |
Hill, Nancy |
female |
August 22, 1873 |
Texas |
Montague |
--- |
the eldest daughter of a "Unionist" who had been hanged ten years earlier was hanged with her male companion |
9 |
companion of Nancy Hill |
male |
August 22, 1873 |
Texas |
Montague |
--- |
hanged while with the eldest daughter of a "Unionist" who had previously been hanged ten years earlier |
9 |
Hill, Martha |
female |
late August 1873 |
Texas |
Montague |
--- |
the daughter of a former "Unionist" was hanged along with her sister |
9 |
Hill, Kate |
female |
late August 1873 |
Texas |
Montague |
--- |
the daughter of a former "Unionist" was hanged along with her sister |
9 |
Hill, Ladusky |
female |
late August 1873 |
Texas |
Montague |
--- |
the wife of a long-dead former "Unionist" was shot to death along with two of her daughters |
9 |
Hill, Adeline |
female |
late August 1873 |
Texas |
Montague |
--- |
the daughter of a long-dead former "Unionist" was shot to death along with her mother and a sister |
9 |
Hill, Eliza |
female |
late August 1873 |
Texas |
Montague |
--- |
the daughter of a long-dead former "Unionist" was shot to death along with her mother and a sister |
9 |
____, George |
male |
1873 |
Louisiana |
--- |
--- |
killed by a white man at the residence of John McMillen |
2 |
Brooks, Nancy |
female |
1873 |
Louisiana |
--- |
--- |
whipped by a white man at the residence of Hammond Scott |
2 |
White, Dudley |
male |
January 1874 |
Kentucky |
Muhlenburg |
--- |
lynched for murder |
18 |
White, Alexander |
male |
February 1874 |
Illinois |
Jackson |
Mt. Carbon |
the African-American was hanged in a lynching for murder |
8 |
Shields, Ed |
male |
April 1874 |
Kentucky |
Spencer |
Taylorsville |
lynched for rape |
18 |
Grubb, Harrison |
male |
July 1874 |
Kansas |
--- |
--- |
the African-American was lynched by a mob |
10 |
Republican official #1 |
male |
August 1874 |
Louisiana |
Red River |
--- |
murdered by the White League |
1 |
Republican official #2 |
male |
August 1874 |
Louisiana |
Red River |
--- |
murdered by the White League |
1 |
Republican official #3 |
male |
August 1874 |
Louisiana |
Red River |
--- |
murdered by the White League |
1 |
Republican official #4 |
male |
August 1874 |
Louisiana |
Red River |
--- |
murdered by the White League |
1 |
Republican official #5 |
male |
August 1874 |
Louisiana |
Red River |
--- |
murdered by the White League |
1 |
Republican official #6 |
male |
August 1874 |
Louisiana |
Red River |
--- |
murdered by the White League |
1 |
unnamed African-American |
male |
August 1874 |
Kentucky |
Jessamine |
--- |
lynched for rape |
18 |
Franklin, Lewis |
male |
September 1874 |
Kentucky |
Jessamine |
Nicholasville |
lynched for rape |
18 |
McGill, Sandy |
male |
abt October 1874 |
Mississippi |
Jasper |
--- |
the Klan came to McGill's home where he and his brother-in-law were on the porch; the two of them fired first and
the brother-in-law managed to escape but McGill was captured and then beaten to death with a mall |
5 |
West, Henry |
male |
November 2, 1874 |
Louisiana |
--- |
near Mansfield |
whipped by Butler Williams followed by a further beating |
2 |
House, Zeke |
male |
1874 |
Mississippi |
Marshall |
Holly Springs/Waterford |
kidnapped by the Klan while working as a mail-carrier; murdered in the woods and left in a ditch |
5 |
Ullery (Ulrey), G.W. |
male |
January 17, 1875 |
Ohio |
Champaign |
Urbana |
the African-American was hanged in a lynching for the rape of a 9-year-old girl |
8 |
"Keemer" |
male |
June 1875 |
Indiana |
Hancock |
Greenfield |
the African-American was hanged in a lynching for rape |
8 |
--- |
female |
June 1875 |
Kansas |
Jefferson |
--- |
in this month it was revealed that an African-american woman had been kept in the dark about emancipation and that she had
remained a slave over the past ten years |
10 |
Johnson, E.G. |
male |
Summer 1875 |
South Carolina |
Columbia |
--- |
the black state senator was assassinated which broke a tie between Democrats and Republicans |
2 |
Gair, John |
male |
Fall 1875 |
Louisiana |
East Feliciana |
--- |
the former state legislator was "literally shot to pieces" |
2 |
--- |
--- |
mid-November 1875 |
Mississippi |
Issaquena |
--- |
a freedperson was stabbed by a salesclerk after a group of freedpersons had argued with the clerk |
2 |
Caldwell, Charles |
male |
December 25, 1875 |
Mississippi |
--- |
Clinton |
the state senator was shot in the back through a store window; white men refused to carry him to his house to say goodbye to
his wife |
1, 2, 17 |
Caldwell, Sam |
male |
December 25, 1875 |
Mississippi |
--- |
Clinton |
shot in the head as he rode into town to check on his brother Charles who had been killed |
2, 17 |
Hawkins, Taylor |
male |
January 5, 1876 |
Louisiana |
East Baton Rouge |
near Baton Rouge |
shot |
2 |
Washington, George (Christmas) |
male |
February 16, 1876 |
Louisiana |
East Baton Rouge |
Baton Rouge |
shot and then burned with coal oil |
2 |
Myers, Jerry |
male |
April 13, 1876 |
Louisiana |
East Baton Rouge |
near Baton Rouge |
hung |
2 |
Myers, Samuel |
male |
April 13, 1876 |
Louisiana |
East Baton Rouge |
near Baton Rouge |
shot |
2 |
Tarpin, Jim |
male |
April 1876 |
Kentucky |
Boyle |
Danville |
lynched for rape |
18 |
French, Ben |
male |
May 1876 |
Kentucky |
Gallatin |
Warsaw |
lynched for murder |
18 |
French, Mrs. Ben |
female |
May 1876 |
Kentucky |
Gallatin |
Warsaw |
lynched for murder |
18 |
Twitchell, Marshall H. |
male |
May 1876 |
Louisiana |
Red River |
--- |
the Republican leader was shot multiple times requiring the amputation of both of his arms; survived |
1 |
black male #1 |
male |
May 1876 |
Mississippi |
Wilkinson |
--- |
hanged as a suspect in the killing of a Jewish shopkeeper without trial; others claimed that the murder was
actually carried about by two white men in blackface |
2 |
black male #2 |
male |
May 1876 |
Mississippi |
Wilkinson |
--- |
hanged as a suspect in the killing of a Jewish shopkeeper without trial; others claimed that the murder was
actually carried about by two white men in blackface |
2 |
Williams |
--- |
June 1876 |
Kentucky |
Boone |
Burlington |
lynched for murder |
18 |
black Republican #1 |
male |
Fall 1876 |
Louisiana |
West Feliciana |
--- |
killed |
2 |
black Republican #2 |
male |
Fall 1876 |
Louisiana |
--- |
--- |
killed |
2 |
Johnson, Primus |
male |
October 1876 |
Louisiana |
--- |
--- |
shot to death in fron of his own house while holding his infant child |
2 |
Longwood, Eaton |
male |
October 1876 |
Louisiana |
--- |
--- |
shot to death at his brother-in-law's, Primus Johnson, house |
2 |
Lewis, William |
male |
October 1876 |
Louisiana |
--- |
--- |
shot two weeks before the elections of that year; survived |
2 |
Shelton, George |
male |
October 1876 |
Louisiana |
--- |
--- |
shot two weeks before the elections of that year; survived |
2 |
Dickerson, Spencer |
male |
October 1876 |
Louisiana |
--- |
--- |
shot two weeks before the elections of that year; survived |
2 |
Burrill, H.W. |
male |
October 1876 |
Louisiana |
--- |
--- |
shot two weeks before the elections of that year; survived |
2 |
Bynum, Ferdinand |
male |
abt November 1876 |
Louisians |
--- |
--- |
his body was found in the Ouachita River after the elections of that year; survived |
2 |
Williams, Abram |
male |
abt November 1876 |
Louisiana |
--- |
--- |
the 60-year old Republican was stripped and whipped a few days before the elections of that year; survived |
2 |
Williams, ______ |
female |
abt November 1876 |
Louisiana |
--- |
--- |
the daughter-in-law of Abram Williams was whipped and raped; survived |
2 |
Rhodes, Merrimon |
male |
abt November 1876 |
Louisiana |
--- |
--- |
killed a few days before the elections of that year; found in the bayou, disemboweled |
2 |
Driver, Randall |
male |
abt November 1876 |
Louisiana |
--- |
--- |
whipped a few days before the elections of that year; survived |
2 |
Pinkston, Henry |
male |
abt November 1876 |
Louisiana |
--- |
--- |
|
2 |
Pinkston, ____ |
male |
abt November 1876 |
Louisiana |
--- |
--- |
Henry's wife was shot and almost died; survived |
2 |
Pinkston, ______ |
male |
abt November 1876 |
Louisiana |
--- |
--- |
Henry's infant child was killed |
2 |
Frazier, Willis |
male |
abt November 1876 |
Louisiana |
--- |
--- |
whipped a few days before the elections of that year; survived |
2 |
Wells, P.M. |
male |
ca. 1876 |
Tennessee |
--- |
---w |
Wells was killed by a group of men including a Deputy Sheriff who had custody of him |
14 |
Smith, Moses |
male |
1876 |
South Carolina |
Columbia |
--- |
killed during his election campaign as a Republican in front of his wife who pleaded for him to be saved |
2 |
several Republican leaders |
--- |
1876 |
South Carolina |
Columbia |
--- |
they were marched into the woods, nooses placed around their necks and told their lives would be spared if they
agreed to vote for Democrats and get other freedmen to do the same; survived |
2 |
Dinkgrave, Dr. B.H. |
male |
1876 |
Louisiana |
Ouachita |
--- |
the Republican was murdered two months before the elections; two others were wounded |
2 |
Chisolm, W.W. |
male |
Spring 1877 |
Mississippi |
Kemper |
--- |
the Republican sheriff was charged with the murder of a White Liner; died a couple weeks after injuries
from a lynch mob |
2 |
Chisolm, ____ |
male |
Spring 1877 |
Mississippi |
Kemper |
--- |
W.W. Chisolm's teenage son died immediately as a result of the lynch mob's injuries to him |
2 |
Chisolm, ____ |
female |
Spring 1877 |
Mississippi |
Kemper |
--- |
W.W. Chisolm's teenage daughter died a couple weeks after injuries inflicted by a lynch mob |
2 |
--- |
--- |
Spring 1877 |
Mississippi |
Kemper |
--- |
the white Republican was killed at W.W. Chisolm's house while Chisolm sat in jail |
2 |
Richards, Andrew |
male |
September 1877 |
Illinois |
Scott |
Winchester |
the African-American man was hanged in a lynching for rape |
8 |
Garnewtt, Simon |
male |
September 1877 |
Ohio |
Butler |
Oxford |
the African-American was shot in a lynching for rape |
8 |
Biggerstaff, Aaron |
male |
--- |
western North Carolina |
--- |
--- |
whipped by the Klan for being a Republican organizer; survived |
1 |
--- |
--- |
--- |
North Carolina |
--- |
Rutherford |
the town's newspaper offices, the Star, were burned by the Klan |
1 |
--- |
--- |
--- |
Georgia |
--- |
--- |
a citizen was whipped for renting a room to a Northern teacher; survived |
1 |
Eager, Washington |
male |
--- |
Georgia |
--- |
--- |
murdered by the Klan |
1 |
--- |
--- |
--- |
Georgia |
--- |
--- |
the Klan burned down a teacher's library |
1 |
--- |
female |
--- |
Mississippi |
--- |
--- |
whipped for "laziness by the Klan; survived |
1 |
--- |
male |
--- |
Mississippi |
--- |
--- |
beaten by the Klan for using the court system against a white debtor; survived |
1 |
--- |
male |
--- |
South Carolina |
--- |
Florence |
killed for renting plantation property as a freedman |
1 |
--- |
male |
--- |
North Carolina |
--- |
--- |
the elderly farmer was whipped for giving land to his former slaves; survived |
1 |
--- |
male |
--- |
North Carolina |
--- |
--- |
whipped by the Klan for not taking off his hat when speaking to a white person; survived |
1 |
--- |
female |
--- |
North Carolina |
--- |
--- |
a 103 year old woman was whipped; survived |
1 |
Flournoy, Robert |
male |
--- |
Mississippi |
--- |
--- |
the scalawag newspaper owner's home was attacked by the Klan after he denounced them; survived |
1 |
Roper, George |
male |
--- |
Alabama |
--- |
Huntsville |
shot and beaten by Klansmen after cheering on the Republican candidates Grant and Colfax; survived |
1 |
freedperson #1 |
--- |
--- |
Mississippi |
Jasper |
Paulding |
kidnapped by the Klan and never heard from again |
5 |
freedperson #2 |
--- |
--- |
Mississippi |
Jasper |
Paulding |
kidnapped by the Klan and never heard from again |
5 |
--- |
--- |
--- |
--- |
--- |
--- |
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