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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 ...
Davidson County, whose principal city is the state capital of Nashville, Tennessee, was home from 1800 to 1850 to the largest share of African Americans in the state, in part because it was settled before the western part and numerous planters held slaves in Middle Tennessee. Since 1860, Shelby County (where Memphis is located) has had the ...
Pages in category "History of slavery in Tennessee" The following 20 pages are in this category, out of 20 total. ... Nashville, Tennessee slave market;
In the South, Kentucky was created as a slave state from Virginia (1792), and Tennessee was created as a slave state from North Carolina (1796). By 1804, before the creation of new states from the federal western territories, the number of slave and free states was 8 each.
The Memphis Avalanche reported in 1888 that Nashville's old slave mart was to be demolished soon: [8]. A LANDMARK GOING The Old Slave Mart of Nashville to Be Demolished Special Dispatch to the Avalanche Nashville March 5 Workmen today began the demolition of probably the most historic building in Nashville—that known as the Old Slave Mart on the southwest corner of Cherry and Cedar streets ...
History of Tennessee (4 vol Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1960), Two volumes of text 2 of biographies; ... Slavery's End in Tennessee (U of Alabama Press, 2002).
Aug. 8 is Emancipation Day in Tennessee, but to this day, for all those who have been convicted of a crime regardless of race, slavery is still legal.
"Just Arrived, 60 Negroes" The Port Gibson Herald, and Correspondent, Port Gibson, Mississippi, March 8, 1850 Map of slavery and slave trade in the United States 1830–1850 by Albert Bushnell Hart (1906) showing overland routes from Nashville and Richmond to Natchez and environs "Bank of Commerce" John D. James, president, David D. James, cashier, Republican Banner, Nashville, Tennessee ...