African American Resources for Tennessee: Difference between revisions

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'''Biographies'''
==== '''Biographies''' ====


*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, courtesy: Internet Archive.
*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, courtesy: Internet Archive.


'''Cemeteries'''
==== '''Cemeteries''' ====


African Americans were generally buried in cemeteries that were race-specific.
African Americans were generally buried in cemeteries that were race-specific.  


'''Church Records'''
==== '''Census''' ====


African Americans typically worshiped apart from white congregations in their own churches.
The first Tennessee census that included the names and identities of freed slaves was taken in 1870.


'''Military Records'''
==== '''Church Records'''  ====
 
African Americans typically worshiped apart from white congregations in their own churches.
 
==== '''Military Records''' ====


For pensions of African Americans who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War, see:  
For pensions of African Americans who fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War, see:  
*Brogden, John V. and Willie L. Robinson. [http://www.angelfire.com/wi/Carver/csaaa.html Tennessee Colored Pension Applications for CSA Service] [Civil War], available online.
*Brogden, John V. and Willie L. Robinson. [http://www.angelfire.com/wi/Carver/csaaa.html Tennessee Colored Pension Applications for CSA Service] [Civil War], available online.


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