CONTENTS

Preface[7-8]
I.Introduction of Slavery into Tennessee[9-24]
I.The status of the negro in North Carolina, 1693-1790[12-21]
A.Privileges[12-18]
B.Restrictions[18-21]
II.The status of the negro in the Franklin State, 1785-1788[22-23]
III.The status of the negro in the Southwest Territory, 1790-1796[23-24]
II.The Status of the Slave in Tennessee, 1796-1865[25-58]
I.The Privileges of Slaves[25-30]
A.Hunting[25-26]
B.Travel[26]
C.Suits for freedom[26-28]
D.Trial by Jury[28-30]
II.Disabilities of Slaves[30-33]
III.Relations of Master and Society[34-38]
A.Liabilities of the master to society[34-36]
1.For his own acts[34-35]
2.For the acts of his slaves[35-36]
B.Liabilities of society to the master[36-38]
IV.The Patrol System[38-41]
V.Special Problems of Slave Government[41-52]
A.The runaway[41-43]
B.Importation of slaves[43-44]
C.The stealing of slaves[44-45]
D.Trading with slaves[46-49]
E.Insurrections[49-50]
F.Unlawful assembly of slaves[50-51]
G.Punishment of slaves[51-52]
VI.Title of Slaves[52-55]
VII.The Law of Increase[55-56]
VIII.The Legal Status of the Slave[56-58]
III.Economics of Slavery in Tennessee[59-79]
I.Slavery an Expression of the Soil[59-64]
II.The Management of the Plantation[64-72]
III.Was Slavery Profitable in Tennessee?[72-79]
IV.Anti-Slavery Societies[80-101]
I.The Tennessee Manumission Society[80-89]
II.The Humane Protecting Society[89]
III.The Emancipation Labor Society[89-91]
IV.The Moral, Religious Manumission Society of West Tennessee[91-94]
V.The Tennessee Colonization Society[94-101]
V.The Religious and Social Aspects of Slavery[102-152]
I.The Methodists[104-125]
II.The Baptists[125-131]
III.Cumberland Presbyterians[131-136]
IV.The Friends[136-139]
V.The Presbyterians[139-148]
VI.The Episcopalians[148-152]
VI.The Legal Status of the Free Negro[153-175]
I.The Establishment of a Policy[153-160]
A.The policy of North Carolina[153]
B.The policy of Tennessee in 1831[153]
C.Changes in the policy from 1831 to 1865[153-160]
II.System of Registration of Free Negroes[161-162]
III.Protection of Free Negroes[162]
IV.Suffrage for Free Negroes[162-173]
A.In North Carolina[162-164]
B.In the Convention of 1796[164-167]
C.From 1796 to 1834[167-168]
D.Its abolition by the Convention of 1834[168-173]
V.Limitations upon the freedom of free negroes[173]
VI.The Status of the Free Negro[174-175]
VII.Abolition[176-198]
I.Private Abolition[176-180]
A.Methods[176-179]
(1)By Deed.
(2)By Will.
(3)By Bill of Sale.
(4)By Implication.
(5)By Effect of Foreign Laws.
B.Extent of Emancipation in Tennessee[179-180]
II.Anti-slavery Leaders[180-185]
III.Abolition Literature[185-187]
IV.Petitions to the Legislature for Abolition[187-189]
V.Abolition in the Convention of 1834[189-195]
VI.Abolition Sentiment after 1834[195-198]
VIII.Conclusions[199-202]
IX.Bibliography[202-209]
X.Appendices[209-213]
A.Anti-Slavery Societies of Tennessee[209]
B.Tennessee Colonization Society[209]
C.Anti-Slavery Leaders in Tennessee[210]
D.List of Emigrants[210-211]
E.Vice-President of American Colonization Society from Tennessee[211]
F.Comparative List of Manumission Societies and Members in the United States[211]
G.Slave and Free Negro Population in Tennessee[212]
H.Comparative Value of Land and Slaves in the Three Divisions of Tennessee, 1859[212]
I.Approximate Value of Property, Slaves, Land, and Cotton in Tennessee, 1859[212]
J.Classification of Slaveholders in Tennessee and the United States, on the basis of number of slaves held, 1860[213]