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The Slocum Massacre occurred on July 29–30, 1910, in Slocum, Texas, an unincorporated community in Anderson County near Palestine in East Texas. Only six deaths were officially confirmed, but some 22 were reported by major newspapers. This is the official count, and it is estimated as many as one hundred African Americans were killed.
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| Source | The Salt Lake Herald-Republican (Salt Lake City, Utah) 31 Jul 1910, page 1 via https://www.newspapers.com/clip/116979379/eighteen-negroes-killed-by-whites/ |
| Author | The Salt Lake Herald-Republican |
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