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[[Image:{{TNAfricanAm}}]] ''[[United States|United States ]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]  [[Tennessee|Tennessee ]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]  [[African-American Resources for Tennessee|African Americans]]''  
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Resources for African-American research fall into two periods: pre- and post-Civil War.  
Resources for African-American research fall into two periods: pre- and post-Civil War.  
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*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&nbsp;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. [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&amp;titleno=39597 FHL&amp;nbsp;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>  
Gale Williams Bamman, CG&nbsp;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. [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&amp;amp;titleno=39597 FHL&amp;amp;nbsp;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'''  
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*[http://www.tnstate.edu/library/digital/digitizing.html ''Profiles of African Americans in Tenness''ee], 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&nbsp;1873-1995.  
*[http://www.tnstate.edu/library/digital/digitizing.html ''Profiles of African Americans in Tenness''ee], 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&nbsp;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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