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| Source Type: | Newspaper |
| Publisher: | Memphis Daily Appeal |
| Place of publication: | Memphis, TN |
| Date of publication: | 5/13/1885 |
| Source URL: | View Source |
| Transcript: | SELMA, ALA. Great Excitement Prevailing and Fears of a Negro Insurrection Increasing. [SPECIAL TO THE APPEAL.] Selma, May 12. A large scope of country above here is wild with excitement. It all comes from the rape of a white lady by a negro. The rapist escaped. His father swore vengeance, and his dead body was found Sunday in a forest. One other negro is dead and a third missing. Three hundred armed white men gathered to suppress a threatened insurrection of the negroes. The whole country is aroused and in arms. |
| Citation: | “The Father of a Rapist Quieted.” Memphis Daily Appeal (Memphis, TN), May 13, 1885. |