Black RepublicChapter 5
August the first after the President's speech surrendering their homes to the blacks they had anchored the house barges out away from the river bank at Chalmette. They had brought what was left of their families to them for safety. The owners of the company had been killed that first night. Olin the spokesman for the Cajuns said they had saved the other three pile rigs and seven barges from " those Niger's " by taking them to the other side of the river and warping them off to trees in...