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Tunis Campbell, a northern black man, moved to the South during Reconstruction. He became an important political leader in Georgia. These excerpts from secondary sources present contrasting interpretations of Campbell’s goals and strategies.

In 1865 and 1866, blacks throughout the South held conventions to determine the best strategies for protecting their freedoms in the aftermath of the war. This document is an excerpt from a convention of “colored citizens” that met in Alexandria,…

P. H. Anderson, a planter, wrote his former slave, Jourdon Anderson, who had previously served as a driver or an overseer and escaped during the war, to offer him employment after the war. P. H. Anderson, deep in debt, hoped that his former slave…

The Civil War brought the abolition of the institution of slavery in the South. Emancipation meant that many elite southern white women had to complete the harsh and strenuous labors their domestic workers once performed. Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas…