The Negro in Tennessee, 1790-1865
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University of Texas Bulletin No. 2205: February 1, 1922
BY CALEB PERRY PATTERSON Adjunct Professor of Government in the University of Texas
PUBLISHED BY THE UNIVERSITY FOUR TIMES A MONTH, AND ENTERED AS SECOND-CLASS MATTER AT THE POSTOFFICE AT AUSTIN, TEXAS, UNDER THE ACT OF AUGUST 24, 1912
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.
Sam Houston
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Mirabeau B. Lamar
C. Perry Patterson
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THE NEGRO IN TENNESSEE, 1790-1865
CONTENTS
PREFACE
I. The Status of the Negro in North Carolina from 1693-1790
II. The Status of the Negro in the State of Franklin from 1785 to 1788
III. The Status of the Negro in the Southwest Territory from 1790 to 1796
FOOTNOTES
I. The Privileges of Slaves—
II. Disabilities of Slaves—
III. Relation of the Master and Society—
IV. The Patrol System—
V. Special Problems of Slave Government—
VI. Title to Slaves—
VII. The Law of Increase—
VIII. The Legal Status of the Slave—
FOOTNOTES
I. Slavery an Expression of the Soil.
II. The Management of the Plantation.
III. Was Slavery Profitable in Tennessee?
FOOTNOTES
FOOTNOTES
I. The Methodists.
II. The Baptists.
III. Cumberland Presbyterians.
IV. The Friends.
V. The Presbyterians.
VI. The Episcopalians.
FOOTNOTES
I. The Establishment of a Policy.
II. Registration of Free Negroes.
III. Protection of Free Negroes.
IV. The Suffrage for Free Negroes.
V. Limitations Upon the Freedom of Free Negroes.
VI. The Legal Status of the Free Negro.
FOOTNOTES
I. Private Abolition.
II. Anti-slavery Leaders.
III. Abolition Literature.
IV. Petitions to the Legislature for Abolition.
V. Abolition in the Convention of 1834.
VI. Abolition Sentiment After 1834.
FOOTNOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A. Sources.
B. Secondary Works.
APPENDICES
A. Anti-slavery Societies of Tennessee.
B. Tennessee Colonization Society, 1829.
C. Anti-slavery Leaders in Tennessee
D. List of Emigrants to Liberia from Tennessee, 1820-1866.
E. Vice-Presidents of American Colonization Society from Tennessee.
F. Comparative List of Manumission Societies and Members in United States.
G. Slave and Free Negro Population in Tennessee from 1790-1860.
H. Comparative Value of Land and Slaves in the Three Divisions of Tennessee, 1859.
I. Approximate Value of Property, Slaves, Land, and Cotton in Tennessee.
J. Classification of Slave Holders in Tennessee and the United States, 1860.
