Negro Rioters In Greene County

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Source Type

Newspaper

Publisher

Greenville Advocate

Publication Place

Greenville, AL

Publication Date

9/17/1874

Transcript

Selma, Sept 15.- The Selma Times has a dispatch from Demopolis of difficulty in Greene county, near forkland. Dr. Minar, of Forkland, on his visit last night a patient on the Rowe plantation, six miles off, found a large party of negroes in arms and drilling. When asked what they meant they told him that negro blood had been shed and that they were determined to have white blood. On his return to Forkland, Dr. Minar reported what he had seen, and the citizens sent two unarmed white men to pacify the negroes, and to let them know that the report that any negroes had been killed was false. Upon approaching the negroes these two white men were fired upon by the negroes and both wounded, one seriously and the other mortally. This morning the whites to the number of thirty or forty went down and dispersed the armed negroes, and killing and wounding several of them. The negroes numbered two hundred. They are the same negroes that stopped the government rations and have held armed possession of the highway since. When fired on this morning, they dispersed, but they are reported to have reassembled, and declare that no white man shall pass the road on pain of death.

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