by the
Bureau and
the
Republican
party.
Wilkerson
and Hilton
furthermore
told the
negroes
they were
as good as
the whites
in every
way and
soon white
and negro
marriages
would be
permitted,
soon the
estates of
their
former
owners
would be
divided
and every
negro
would be
given
forty
acres and
a mule for
his own.
They kept
the
negroes
stirred up
with tales
of cruelty
perpetrated
by the
whites
and, in a
section
long famed
for the
affectionate
relations
