Source: Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1868, "Report of Outrages Committed upon Citizens [of the] State of Georgia from Jan 1st to Nov 15th, 1868." Located in Governor Bullock's Correspondence, Georgia State Archives (RG-SG-S: 1-1-5, box 56), Morrow, GA, August 2010. Scanned by Georgia State Archives; coded and analyzed by author. Nevertheless, few of the events that produced the victimizations enumerated in the report would qualify as vigilantism or lynching. Generally, it is more appropriate to consider these as crimes perpetrated against the Freedmen of Georgia. As seen in Table 10, only 28% (101) of the 355 outrages were murders. Of these, only 45 entailed three or more perpetrators. Most, in fact, were the actions of individuals, who took the law into their own hands, disciplining freedmen in the same way that they had punished slaves. Beating and whipping accounted for 31% of all outrages. Table 11 Race of Perpetrator (including groups) in Outrages Reported by Freedman's Bureau in Georgia, January-November 15, 1868 (N=425) Race percent N Black 6% 26 White 66% 280 Unknown 28% 119 Total 100% 425 Source: Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1868, "Report of Outrages Committed upon Citizens [of the] State of Georgia from Jan 1st to Nov 15th, 1868." As seen in Table 11, whites committed most (66%) of these outrages. In fact, we can assume that all of the victims were Freedmen, since this is the report of outrages against the Freedmen of Georgia, and we can assume that virtually all of the unknown assailants were white. Table 12 Percent Arrested by Race of Perpetrator (including groups) in Outrages Reported by Freedman's Bureau in Georgia, January-November 15, 1868 (N=425)
Source: Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1868, "Report of Outrages Committed upon Citizens [of the] State of Georgia from Jan 1st to Nov 15th, 1868." Located in Governor Bullock's Correspondence, Georgia State Archives (RG-SG-S: 1-1-5, box 56), Morrow, GA, August 2010. Scanned by Georgia State Archives; coded and analyzed by author. Nevertheless, few of the events that produced the victimizations enumerated in the report would qualify as vigilantism or lynching. Generally, it is more appropriate to consider these as crimes perpetrated against the Freedmen of Georgia. As seen in Table 10, only 28% (101) of the 355 outrages were murders. Of these, only 45 entailed three or more perpetrators. Most, in fact, were the actions of individuals, who took the law into their own hands, disciplining freedmen in the same way that they had punished slaves. Beating and whipping accounted for 31% of all outrages. Table 11 Race of Perpetrator (including groups) in Outrages Reported by Freedman's Bureau in Georgia, January-November 15, 1868 (N=425) Race percent N Black 6% 26 White 66% 280 Unknown 28% 119 Total 100% 425 Source: Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands, 1868, "Report of Outrages Committed upon Citizens [of the] State of Georgia from Jan 1st to Nov 15th, 1868." As seen in Table 11, whites committed most (66%) of these outrages. In fact, we can assume that all of the victims were Freedmen, since this is the report of outrages against the Freedmen of Georgia, and we can assume that virtually all of the unknown assailants were white. Table 12 Percent Arrested by Race of Perpetrator (including groups) in Outrages Reported by Freedman's Bureau in Georgia, January-November 15, 1868 (N=425)
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