The Donaldsonville March of 1870: A Case Study in Black Militias' Use of Force to Combat Insurrectionists in the Reconstruction South.

The article focuses on the Donaldsonville March of 1870 in Louisiana as a case study in the use of force by Black militia to combat insurrectionists in the Reconstruction South. Topics discussed include the march as the culmination of martial encounters between armed white terrorists and freedpeople in Ascension Parish and the significance of the Donaldsonville March of 1870 to the history of Louisiana and the Black Freedom Struggle.