Talk:Colfax, Louisiana

Colfax Massacre
Note there is also a Wikipedia article titled Colfax Massacre, which includes sourced citations related to the events of 1873. It's unclear from this article whether the parish or state or city is organizing the memorial and interpretation of events at the parish courthouse. Please add if anyone knows who is responsible.--Parkwells (talk) 14:21, 27 July 2008 (UTC)

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I came across this article while listening to the audiobook version of Spying on the South (I believe), a modern travelogue following the travels of Frederick Law Olmstead, who visited this town. Actually, the modern author says Olmstead was shaken by seeing a female slave badly beaten by an overseer, and that some thought the plantation owner was the model for Simon Legree. Trouble is, I don't have the time to revise this article, but did find a very interesting explanation of the founding of the county in the only NRIS for a building in town, the Hotel Lesage. Seems the plantation owner had a son born crippled, and basically decamped for France during the boy's youth and through the Civil War. When the boy grew up, he had a long term relationship with a Black woman, and also founded the county as a Republican enclave, hence naming it for Schuyler Colfax. He did become a state senator, and had some unpleasant adventures as Reconstruction came to an end. Olmstead's books are still in print, and available in hard copy form at some local history libraries, though hours of course are affected by Covid. Hope someone can draw up an article about him, as well as fix this one.Jweaver28 (talk) 23:55, 22 September 2020 (UTC)