@Regrann from @haki_kweli_shakur - 💂🏿♀️💂🏾The Massacre of Hamburg ( Whites try to disarm all black militia protecting All Black Town ) - On July 8, 1876, the small town of Hamburg, South Carolina erupted in violence as the community’s New Afrikan militia clashed with whites from the surrounding rural area. Hamburg was a small all-black community across the river from Augusta, Georgia. _ The events that led to the massacre began July 4, 1876, when two white men driving a carriage through Hamburg, an all-black town on the banks of the Savannah River, were delayed by a parade of the town’s militia, which was then part of the South Carolina Guard. _ Whites later demanded that the militia be disbanded, and tensions rose. On July 8, about 100 armed whites surrounded about 40 blacks at the militia’s armory and shots were fired. _ Meriwether, a white farmer, was killed. Some of the militiamen and other freedmen slipped away after darkness fell, but about two dozen were caught by the white mob, which picked out and executed four of them: Attaway, Phillips, Stephens and Myniart. Other black victims died of wounds from the armory fight or as they fled the scene of the executions. _ Though 94 white men were indicted by a grand jury, they were not prosecuted. The massacre spawned violence elsewhere – in Ellenton, for example, where 100 blacks were killed – and drew national attention. https://newafrikan77.wordpress.com/2017/07/08/july-8th-1876-black-militia-in-black-town-attacked-after-whites-try-to-disarm-them-south-carolina-new-afrikans-form-black-militia-to-protect-black-town-in-hamburg/ #HamburgMassacre #MassacreofHamburg #SouthCarolina #HamburgSC #augustageorgia #georgia #augusta #blackmilitia #newafrikan77wordpress #WorldWide #newyork #losangles #texas #DMV #Virginia #Miami #Atlanta - #regrann
