Black Holocaust: The Paris Horror and a Legacy of Texas Terror, Paperback/E. R. Bills

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From 1891 to 1922, Texans burned an average of one person of color at the stake a year for three decades. These burnings typically featured carnival atmospheres with thousands in attendance, including men, women and children who later described the spectacles as jovial ``barbecues`` or ``roasts,`` and commemorated the events with ``lynching`` postcards. It was a period when many white Texans-previously enraged by Reconstruction-reasserted white primacy and terrorized black Texans with impunity. Join author E. R. Bills in this recounting of an African American holocaust. E. R. Bills is a Texas author and historian who also wrote ``The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas`` and ``Texas Obscurities:: Stories of the Peculiar, Exceptional and Nefarious.