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And he, in effect, turned over much of his land,
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without even selling it, to the settlement of
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hundreds and hundreds of freedmen and their families
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Willie Calhoun would spend the Colfax Massacre
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watching probably 150-odd blacks murdered in cold blood,
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as a kind of a prisoner on his front porch
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But at any rate, blacks gathered in Colfax for weeks
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before the spring of '73, because it was--
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it had been, at least, the Calhoun Landing,
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as it was called, had been a place of safety
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Blacks took over the courthouse in Colfax
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They occupied it