John T. Shuften

Biography

John Thomas Shuften (c. 1840–?), commonly known as J. T. Shuften, was an African-American newspaper editor, journalist, and lawyer. He founded the Colored American newspaper in Macon, Georgia, active from 1865 to 1866. Shuften was an African American who wrote an exposé about the Reconstruction era in the American South, and what he termed as "the great betrayal of the Republican party". He practiced law in Orlando, Florida.

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