A massacre of Negroes began in the parish of St.Landry on the 28th of September and continued for three days, resulting in the death of from 300 to 400.

Thirteen captives were taken from the jail and shot and as many as twenty-five dead bodies were found burned in the woods.

There broke out in the parish of Bossier another three-day riot during which two hundred Negroes were massacred.

More than forty blacks were killed in the parish of Caddo during the following month.

In fact, the number of murders, maimings and whippings during these months aggregated over one thousand.[4] The result was that the intelligent Negroes were either intimidated or killed so that the illiterate masses of Negro voters might be ordered to refrain from voting the Republican ticket to strengthen the Democrats or be subjected to starvation through the operation of the mischievous land tenure and credit system.