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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Georgia Press
ISBN-100820309052
ISBN-139780820309057
eBay Product ID (ePID)923680
Product Key Features
Number of Pages192 Pages
Publication NameFreedom's Shore : Tunis Campbell and the Georgia Freedmen
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1986
SubjectUnited States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorRussell Duncan
SeriesBrown Thrasher Bks.
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight23.5 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN86-006914
Reviews"Makes an interesting character as accessible as he is likely ever to be."-- Journal of Southern History, "This well-written book documents how Campbell used his power arbitrarily but totally to the benefit of his constituents."-- American Historical Review, "Makes an interesting character as accessible as he is likely ever to be."--Journal of Southern History, "This well-written book documents how Campbell used his power arbitrarily but totally to the benefit of his constituents."--American Historical Review
Dewey Edition19
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal975.8/00496073
SynopsisPresenting the beginnings of the battle for civil rights in the South, Freedom's Shore tells of the tenacity and achievements of one black political figure, of the hopes and dreams of a legally free people amid the political and social realities of Reconstruction Georgia., For the first time since the early years of the American republic, the period following emancipation held out the promise of a true colorblind democracy. The freed slaves hoped for forty acres and a mule by which they could work as small farmers, erect houses, establish families, and live free from the gaze of planter and overseer. In this first light of freedom, blacks needed help to learn how to function in a democracy and how to protect themselves from whites eager to find a new way to exploit their labor. In Freedom's Shore , Russell Duncan tells of the efforts of Tunis Campbell, a black carpetbagger and fellow abolitionist and friend of Frederick Douglass, to lift his race to equal participation in American society. Duncan focuses on Campbell's determined work to push radical reforms, draft a new constitution for Georgia, and pass laws designed to ensure equality for all citizens of the state. Campbell made significant contributions at the state level, but his true importance was in his home district of Liberty and McIntosh counties on the Georgia coast. There he forged the black majority into a powerful political machine that controlled county elections for years. He successfully protected black rights, always promoting freedom-in-fact, not merely freedom-by-law. Yet, as many black politicians throughout the South were discovering, radical strength at the local level was insufficient to stop the growing strength of reactionary white politics at the state level. After years of struggle, Campbell was finally defeated by the white Democrats. Charged with political corruption, he was removed from his state and local political offices; at the age of sixty-four, over the protests of President Grant among others, Campbell was sentenced to Georgia's hire-out convict labor program. The black machine in McIntosh County, however, was not destroyed in Campbell's defeat, but instead remained an active force in county politics for forty years, returning a black legislator to the General Assembly in every election, except for the decade of the 1890s, until 1907. Presenting the beginnings of the battle for civil rights in the South, Freedom's Shore tells of the tenacity and achievements of one black political figure, of the hopes and dreams of a legally free people amid the political and social realities of Reconstruction Georgia.
LC Classification NumberF291.C2D86 1986
