Report of the Select Committee on the New Orleans Riots. First Edition

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Government Printing Office, 1867. This is the Official Government Report on the Riots In New Orleans just after the Civil War. The New Orleans Riot, was a violent conflict outside of the Mechanics Institute in New Orleans Louisiana Constitutional Convention in 1866. The Radical Republicans in Louisiana that reconvened the Constitutional Convention were angered by the enactment of the Black Codes in Louisiana and by the legislature's refusal to give black men the vote. Heavy toning and foxing to the interior pages. There is a previous owner name on the title page and front end board. The boards show rubbing, fading and general wear. The spine has some scuffing with light chipping to the ends and some tearing away to the binding at the top portion.