Geography: Marianna

Three legal documents detailing the violence and unrest in Marianna, Florida, in 1869. These documents include eyewitness accounts of murders, threats, and political tensions between white and Black residents following the end of the Civil War and the implementation of the Freedmen's Bureau. The events involved the murder of Samuel Fleishman, a Unionist and Republican, and highlight the racial conflicts and political instability of Reconstruction.