One of the greatest sensations of the period happened in Jefferson County, Georgia in 1870. Cudjo Fye's Insurrection is a book about the fortitude and courage of an ex-slave who dared to stand up for his rights of personhood and the right to vote. He lived through the most important era in the history of our nation-the rights of African Americans after slavery. This book is not presented as a historical time line of events but a document of events and voices from the past as the nation abolished slavery, streaming down to events in the State with a newly elected Governor Rufus Bullock. Cudjo...