Freedmen massacres

The Freedmen massacres were a series of attacks on African-Americans which occurred in the states of the former Confederacy during Reconstruction, in the aftermath of the American Civil War. Many of these incidents were the result of a struggle over political power, especially after the voting rights of freedmen were protected through the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Robert Smalls estimated that overall 53,000 African-American were killed in post-war racial terrorism, an estimate increasingly considered plausible by historians.

"With reference to emancipation, we are at the beginning of the war."

North Carolina

 * "Four murders, 30 whippings, and 16 other horrible outrages" (1871, Alamance County)