Days before the tumultuous presidential election of 1868, St.
Many fled to the Cane Fields to hide from their attac.
Freedpeople were dragged from their homes and murdered in cold blood.
Armed groups mobilized to suppress these recently emancipated voters in the hopes of regaining a way of life turned upside down by the Civil War and Reconstruction.
As African American men gained the right to vote, white Democrats of the Parish feared losing their majority.
Bernard Parish descended into chaos.
Days before the tumultuous presidential election of 1868, St