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 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 blacks 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):
+Not all black residents of Tennessee were slaves before the Civil War. The following is a list of free black heads of household&nbsp;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.
+Gale Williams Bamman located the following statistics in a book by historian Ira Berlin:
+'''Free African American Population in Antebellum Tennessee'''
+{| cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" width="200" border="1"
+|-
+| '''Year'''
+| '''Number'''
+|-
+| 1820
+| 2,727
+|-
+| 1860
+| 7,300
+|}
 == '''Post-Civil War'''  ==