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Category:African-American abolitionists; John Brown's raiders#Black participation; List of notable opponents of slavery; Slavery in the United States; Texas Revolution; Underground Railroad; United States Colored Troops
The history of slavery in Tennessee began when it was the old Southwest Territory and thus the law regulating slavery in Tennessee was broadly derived from North Carolina law, and was initially comparatively "liberal." However, after statehood, as the fear of slave rebellion and the threat to slavery posed by abolitionism increased, the laws ...
Many freedmen stayed in the region after emancipation and the abolition of slavery. Historically there have been much smaller Black populations in the Middle Tennessee and East Tennessee (Appalachian) regions, because of the different geography and agricultural patterns. [7]
Pages in category "Abolitionists from Tennessee" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. D. Samuel Doak; E.
Historically black universities and colleges in Tennessee (7 C, 13 P) Historically segregated African-American schools in Tennessee (1 C, 21 P) History of slavery in Tennessee (1 C, 20 P)
In this period, Rankin worked closely with Charles Osborn in east Tennessee following the formation of the Tennessee Manumissions Society in 1815. In other parts of the country, Black leaders like ...
1.26 Tennessee. 1.27 Texas. 1.28 ... many African-American migrants from the Southeast found a space whereby they ... the territory that it would become a Black ...
It was located in a 2,000-acre (8 km 2) woodland on the side of present-day Germantown, Tennessee, a Memphis suburb, along the Wolf River. It was a small-scale test of her full-compensation emancipation plan in which no slaveholders would lose money for emancipating slaves.