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Special Field Order #15
(January 1865)
Union general William Sherman grants abandoned plantation land and mules to freed slaves. (4:45)
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Cultivating Liberty
(Spring 1865)
Activist Tunis Campbell and former slaves start self-sufficient lives in Georgia. (4:39)
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An Independent Black Community
(Spring 1865)
Tunis Campbell's black settlement establishes schools and bans whites from the island. (4:38)
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White Reconciliation
(Winter 1866)
The president pardons Southerners and returns their lands, dismissing freed slaves' claims. (6:11)
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Interracial Democracy
(Spring 1867)
Black suffrage is imposed in the South, though blacks cannot vote in many Northern states. (6:39)
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"The Negro Is Unfit to Rule"
(Summer 1868)
The Georgia legislature's white majority forcibly expels elected African American representatives, including Tunis Campbell. (4:01)
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"Let Us Have Peace"
(Fall 1868)
Union general Ulysses S. Grant is elected president, promising a quick reconciliation of North and South. (2:52)
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Making Something Out of Nothing
(Fall 1867)
Fan Butler struggles to make contracts with black laborers who are learning to assert their rights. (3:51)
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Asserting Black Power
(Summer 1871)
Tunis Campbell is arrested and charged with seeking to "give the Negro supremacy over the white man." (03:21)
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The End of Reconstruction
(Spring 1877)
Republicans agree to abandon Reconstruction in a back-room political deal. (2:20)
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Tunis Campbell: Epilogue
Learn about black activist Tunis Campbell's life after Reconstruction. (0:22)
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