Was Ready for Them
March 3, 1894
Summary
A black man stands his ground as white men try to force him out of his new neighborhood.
Transcription
Onancook Va., Feb 19
Several weeks ago a colored man moved with his family from Maryland to the neighborhood of Mappville, in the northern part of Accomac.
Some of the young men of the community determined to wait on him and inform him that he would have to leave within ten days to take the consequences. Somehow or other the colored man heard of the plot to drive him away, and when the men went to his house several nights ago to carry out their purpose he was ready for them and opened fire on them from an upper window with a shotgun. The men being unable to shield themselves took to flight, and one of them was shot in the leg and so badly wounded that he had to be carried home by his comrades. Dr. Bowdoin was called in and succeeding in picking eighty no. 3 shot out of the lacerated leg.
Say bpb, don’t you think you had better get off and take in “The Little Tycoon.”
Several weeks ago a colored man moved with his family from Maryland to the neighborhood of Mappville, in the northern part of Accomac.
Some of the young men of the community determined to wait on him and inform him that he would have to leave within ten days to take the consequences. Somehow or other the colored man heard of the plot to drive him away, and when the men went to his house several nights ago to carry out their purpose he was ready for them and opened fire on them from an upper window with a shotgun. The men being unable to shield themselves took to flight, and one of them was shot in the leg and so badly wounded that he had to be carried home by his comrades. Dr. Bowdoin was called in and succeeding in picking eighty no. 3 shot out of the lacerated leg.
Say bpb, don’t you think you had better get off and take in “The Little Tycoon.”
About this article
Source
Location on Page
Upper Left Quadrant
Topic
Contributed By
Carlos Serrano
Citation
“Was Ready for Them,” Black Virginia: The Richmond Planet, 1894-1909, accessed May 17, 2025, https://blackvirginia.richmond.edu/items/show/1596.