William U. Saunders
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William U. Saunders represented Gadsden County, Florida in the Florida Legislature during the Reconstruction era.[1]
He was a delegate from Gadsden County to the 1868 Counstitutional Convention of Florida despite having been in the county only a few days in his life according to one account.[2] He had been a barber in Illinois[3] or Maryland.[4] He was described as an eloquent speaker.[4] In 1948 he was described as a Northern Radical.[5]
He traveled the state rallying Black voters.[6]
Historian T. D. Allman wrote that racist revisionists tried to recast him as mulatto.[7]
References
- ^ Brown, Canter (July 1, 1998). "Florida's Black Public Officials, 1867-1924". University of Alabama Press – via Google Books.
- ^ Davis, William Watson (July 1, 1913). "The Civil War and Reconstruction in Florida". Columbia University Press – via Google Books.
- ^ Shofner, Jerrell H. (1966). [www.jstor.org/stable/30147741 "Political Reconstruction in Florida"]. The Florida Historical Quarterly. 45 (2): 145–170 – via JSTOR.
{{cite journal}}: Check|url=value (help) - ^ a b "Negro History Bulletin". Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. July 1, 1974 – via Google Books.
- ^ Hanna, Kathryn Abbey (July 1, 1948). "Florida, Land of Change". University of North Carolina Press – via Google Books.
- ^ Randel, William Peirce (July 1, 1969). "Centennial: American Life in 1876". Chilton Book Company – via Google Books.
- ^ Allman, T. D. (March 5, 2013). "Finding Florida: The True History of the Sunshine State". Grove/Atlantic, Inc. – via Google Books.