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Extremists didn’t kill Blackburn, but his printing press was attacked after he helped create the Louisiana Constitutional Convention of 1868. The Planters’ Banner printed the following on July ...

Whipper, a lawyer. Both had played a role in drafting the progressive 1868 state constitutional convention. Smalls had been the architect of the amendment creating public schools in South Carolina.