Tunis Campbell
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Tunis Campbell (1812-1891) Born on April 1, 1812 in Middlebrook, New York. Campbell was a prominent African American politician of the 19th century, and a major figure in Reconstruction Georgia. He served as a Justice of the Peace, a delegate to the State Constitutional Convention, and as a State Senator. He died in Boston, on December 4, 1891.
[edit] References
- Eric Foner ed., Freedom's Lawmakers: A Directory of Black Officeholders During Reconstruction (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996).
- Tunis Campbell, Sufferings of the Reverend T.G. Campbell and His Family in Georgia. (1877).
- Edmund L. Drago, Black Politicians and Reconstruction in Georgia: A Splendid Failure (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1982).
- Russell Duncan, Freedom's Shore: Tunis Campbell and the Georgia Freedmen (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1986).
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