Cause by Tonya Bolden

Author:Tonya Bolden [Bolden, Tonya]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-0-307-79288-4
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 2014-01-06T16:00:00+00:00

A few weeks after Stevens died, the Georgia legislature followed through on expelling its black members. The fact that white moderate Republicans (the majority) supported the expulsion made it an even more bitter pill for Abram Colby and his black colleagues. But the black men would be reinstated under orders from Congress, and with the support of the president. That president was not Andy Johnson.

Ousted Georgia legislator Tunis G. Campbell, Sr. Born in New Jersey, he spent much of his early life in New York City. There, he became an AME Zion Church minister and supported his family as a hotel steward, then with the bakery he co-owned. In 1863, Tunis Campbell went south, to the region that had been designated for blacks under General Sherman’s Special Field Order No. 15. As an employee of the Freedmen’s Bureau, Campbell helped blacks on the Georgia Sea Islands build up. His goal was to establish an independent republic. The Freedmen’s Bureau fired him in 1866. When Campbell moved to mainland Georgia, he became a leader in McIntosh County, population about five thousand, with blacks outnumbering whites almost three to one. When he was elected to Georgia’s senate in 1868, his son, Tunis G. Campbell, Jr., was elected to its house.

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