The 1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre Quotes

“The progress St. Bernard Parish experienced in the early twentieth century was halted by a catastrophic hurricane in 1915. Property throughout the parish was destroyed, and it was felt hardest among the poor in lower St. Bernard Parish. Many Isleños and African Americans lost everything.”
― C. Dier, The 1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre: Blood in the Cane Fields

“He referenced their racial beliefs: “The Isleños are a pure race; they have a perfect horror of the negro and marry among themselves.”
― C. Dier, The 1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre: Blood in the Cane Fields

“Bourbon Democrats saw and seized the opportunity to exploit the plight of Louisiana’s impoverished whites by using divisive and racially charged rhetoric to win their votes. They scapegoated the white citizens’ economic stagnation as being the result of both competition with black laborers and corrupt carpetbag rule.”
― C. Dier, The 1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre: Blood in the Cane Fields

“On Monday the 26th of Oct., 1868 about 8 o’clock in the morning, they came in here to this place, the Spanish, about twenty of them.”
― C. Dier, The 1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre: Blood in the Cane Fields

“They arrested the Dr. and myself—David Jones, Leone Porter, Antonio Campo. These were the ones that arrested us in particular.”
― C. Dier, The 1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre: Blood in the Cane Fields

“Whites near the parish border in New Orleans mobilized and equipped themselves to enter St. Bernard Parish at a moment’s notice for a preemptive attack.”
― C. Dier, The 1868 St. Bernard Parish Massacre: Blood in the Cane Fields