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*[http://newdeal.feri.org/guides/tnguide/ch10.htm "Negroes in Tennessee"] chapter 10 of the online book ''Tennessee: A Guide to the State.'' Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Tennessee. American Guide Series. (No Place: New Deal Network, 1996) Original published: Tennessee: State of Tennessee. Department of Conservation, Division of Information, 1939. This chapter provides a concise introduction to African Americans in Tennessee. | *[http://newdeal.feri.org/guides/tnguide/ch10.htm "Negroes in Tennessee"] chapter 10 of the online book ''Tennessee: A Guide to the State.'' Compiled and Written by the Federal Writers' Project of the Work Projects Administration for the State of Tennessee. American Guide Series. (No Place: New Deal Network, 1996) Original published: Tennessee: State of Tennessee. Department of Conservation, Division of Information, 1939. This chapter provides a concise introduction to African Americans in Tennessee. | ||
*Patterson, C. Perry. [http://www.archive.org/details/negrointennessee01patt ''The Negro in Tennessee, 1790-1865''.] Austin, Texas: The University of Texas, 1922. Free digitized copy. Written in 1922, this book can be viewed as treating slavery without a degree of compassion and understanding, but it is valuable for its information about the slavery system and laws in Tennessee. | *Patterson, C. Perry. [http://www.archive.org/details/negrointennessee01patt ''The Negro in Tennessee, 1790-1865''.] Austin, Texas: The University of Texas, 1922. Free digitized copy. Written in 1922, this book can be viewed as treating slavery without a degree of compassion and understanding, but it is valuable for its information about the slavery system and laws in Tennessee. | ||
*[http://dinaal.tnstate.edu/iii/encore/search?formids=target&lang=eng&suite=def&reservedids=lang%2Csuite&submitmode=&submitname=&target=Profiles+of+African+Americans+in+Tennessee ''Profiles of African Americans in | *[http://dinaal.tnstate.edu/iii/encore/search?formids=target&lang=eng&suite=def&reservedids=lang%2Csuite&submitmode=&submitname=&target=Profiles+of+African+Americans+in+Tennessee ''Profiles of African Americans in Tennessee''], Editors Bobby L.Lovett and Linda T. Winn. Nashville, Tennessee: Annual Local Conference on Afro-American Culture and History, 1996. This online publication contains short biographies of 70 members of the Tennessee General Assembly between 1873-1995. | ||
*Works Projects Administration. ''[http://www.archive.org/details/slavenarrativesa19932gut Slave Narratives - A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves].''Washington, 1941. Free digital copy. | *Works Projects Administration. ''[http://www.archive.org/details/slavenarrativesa19932gut Slave Narratives - A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves].''Washington, 1941. Free digital copy. | ||
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An index to records at the Family History Library containing the names of African Americans is: | An index to records at the Family History Library containing the names of African Americans is: | ||
*Taylor, Marie. Family History Library ''Bibliography of African American Sources: As of 1994''. Salt Lake City, Utah: Family History Library, United States Reference, 2000. (Family History Library book {{FHL|956235|title-id|disp=}}; [this link allows access to a digital image].) Includes information taken from church, court, slavery, and vital records, as well from the Kenneth Stamp collection of Southern plantation records. | *Taylor, Marie. Family History Library ''Bibliography of African American Sources: As of 1994''. Salt Lake City, Utah: Family History Library, United States Reference, 2000. (Family History Library book {{FHL|956235|title-id|disp=}}; [this link allows access to a digital image].) Includes information taken from church, court, slavery, and vital records, as well as from the Kenneth Stamp collection of Southern plantation records. | ||
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A list of slaves that were impressed to work on the railroads is in: | A list of slaves that were impressed to work on the railroads is in: | ||
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Slaves were gradually emancipated by Tennessee law beginning in 1865. | Slaves were gradually emancipated by Tennessee law beginning in 1865. | ||
Not all black residents of Tennessee were slaves before the Civil War. The following is a list of free black heads of household | Not all black residents of Tennessee were slaves before the Civil War. The following is a list of free black heads of household living in Tennessee counties at the time the 1820 U.S. Federal Census was taken (census records do not survive for all counties that year): | ||
*Waldrep, G.C. "'Free Colored' Heads of Household in the 1820 Tennessee Census," available [http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Tenn_1820.htm online], courtesy: [http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/ Free African Americans] website. | *Waldrep, G.C. "'Free Colored' Heads of Household in the 1820 Tennessee Census," available [http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Tenn_1820.htm online], courtesy: [http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/ Free African Americans] website. | ||
Gale Williams Bamman, CG | Gale Williams Bamman, CG located the following statistics in a book by Historian Ira Berlin:<ref>Gale Williams Bamman, "Research in Tennessee," ''National Genealogical Society Quarterly'', Vol. 81, No. 2 (Jun. 1993): 105. FHL US/CAN Book 973 B2ng v. 81 (1993), citing Ira Berlin, ''Slaves without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South'' (New York: Pantheon Books, 1974), 136-137.</ref> | ||
'''Free African American Population in Antebellum Tennessee''' | '''Free African American Population in Antebellum Tennessee''' | ||