Jon Krakauer

Jon Krakauer Instagram – An hour after sunset on Easter Sunday in 1873, riverboat put ashore at Colfax Louisiana, a ramshackle settlement surrounded by cotton plantations on the east bank of the Red River. Rain was falling. As passengers disembarked, they found themselves stumbling in the dark over what turned out to be the lifeless bodies of Black Americans who had been freed from slavery eight years earlier after the Civil War. Most of the dead were lying facedown in the grass and had been shot almost to pieces. Others had been bludgeoned, mutilated, or burned to death. There were too many corpses to count. Flames rose from the ruins of the courthouse. The stench of charred human flesh was inescapable. Today at the site of the massacre, a marble obelisk celebrates the white supremacists who committed this mass murder. To learn why it’s so important to understand what happened here, hit the link in my profile. | Posted on 29/Aug/2020 04:33:25