Schurz unveiled a travelogue of death. He documented hunting parties where Black men were chased down and shot, with dogs left to devour their faces.67 Near Montgomery, Alabama, he wrote, “negroes leaving the plantations, and found on the roads, were exposed to the savagest treatment.” At Selma, he relayed the report from Major J. P. Houston that twelve “negroes were killed by whites.”68 In Choctaw County, Alabama, on separate occasions, Black men were roasted alive; one of them was “chained to a pine tree and burned to death.”69 Then there were the “ ‘gallant young men’ [who] make a practice
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