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The 1910 Slocum Massacre: An Act of Genocide in East Texas. By E. R. Bills. (Charleston, S.C., and London: History Press, 2014. Pp. 159. Paper, $19.99, ISBN 978-1-62619-352-9.)
As the United States and its people make some effort to come to terms with their racist past, they stand to benefit from those whose diligent research has homed in on incidents of racially motivated violence that have marred the republic's history. In the last two decades alone, professional historians, journalists, and other researchers have published dozens of titles treating lynching and race riots, and there seems to be no sign that the possibilities for investigation have been exhausted.
Freelance journalist E. R. Bills contributes to this literature on racial violence with his study of the 1910 murders of an unknown and unknowable number of African Americans that began near the East Texas...