In the book "The Red Record", Ida B. Wells discusses roustabout, mulattoes & sadism in the events from before the slave regime to after the emancipation of slavery. She writes of the white supremacist sanguinary & barbarism to show that they have no formality & leniency. For example when Wells discusses the idea of barbarism, the first white man's excuse for murdering hundreds of African-Americans from 1865- 1872 was that they were part of the insurrection. Wells came to find that statement false, that there was no riot after all. So in conclusion, the massacres were in fact done for arbitrary reasons.
