Difficulty with Whites and Blacks Near Demopolis
- Title
- Difficulty with Whites and Blacks Near Demopolis
- Source Type
- Newspaper
- Publisher
- Hunstville Weekly Democrat
- Publication Place
- Hunstville, AL
- Publication Date
- 9/17/1874
- Transcript
- Selma, Ala, Sep 15.- A dispatch to the Times from Demopolis reports that a body of armed negroes yesterday were discovered drilling near that place, who replied to questions, what they meant, that negro blood has been shed, and that they were determined to have white blood. Two unarmed whites, sent to learn their grievances and assure them of their error, were fired upon and one mortally. This morning the whites to the number of thirty or forty went down and dispersed the armed negroes, killing and wounding several of them. The negroes numbered 200. They are the same negroes reported to have assembled and declare that no white man shall pass the road on pain of death.
- Sources for
- 063-18740909-001