The Columbia Race Riots (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book The Columbia Race Riots (Classic Reprint) written by William Frederic Worner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-11 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Columbia Race Riots A band of persons, consisting in all of not more than fifty. Collected, and marched to that part of the borough generally occupied by the col ored population. They attacked and defaced a number of houses with stones, disturbed the quiet of the place by shouting, and occasionally firing off guns, though without serious result. After keeping the citi zens in consternation and preventing them from retiring to rest before one o'clock in the morning, the mob at length dispersed.(178) Most of the frightened Negroes, however, fled to the hills above the town, and a few to Bethel's woods. Here they were obliged to remain in hiding for several days, without food or shelter, until the fury of the mob had ceased. Becoming alarmed at the seriousness of the situation, residents of the neighborhood notified Dare Devil Dave Miller. Then high sheriff of the county. He swore in a large number of Deputies, who went from Lancaster to Columbia in pursuit of the rioters. Some of the offenders were apprehended, particularly such as were supposed to be the leaders, and were brought to trial. But sentiment in those days was not favorable to the colored people and none was convicted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.