Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Southern Outrages; Atrocities as They Passed Through the Hopper; Facts for the American People to Read; Brutal Outrages Upon Frances Thomas; 1866 Vs. 1876
In order that the public may fully understand the truth in regard to the Memphis riots of 1866, as set forth in the minority report by Hon. George S. Shanklin, of Kentucky, then a member of the U. S. House of Representatives, we have taken the pains to investigate the affair by seeking out and conversing with several gentlemen from the North who were in Memphis at the time. From a gentleman born and educated in the State of New York, who was living in Memphis at the time the riots occurred, but now a resident of St. Louis, we have the following state ment.
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