FOOTNOTES
[1] Wheeler, p. 279.
[2] Acts of North Carolina, 1777, Ch. 6, Sec. 2.
[3] Acts of 1801, Ch. 27, Sec. 1.
[4] U. S. Census, 1870, I, Population, 62.
[5] The Genius, II, 136; The Western Freeman, Shelbyville, Tennessee, Sept. 6, 1831.
[6] Hale and Merrit, II, 296.
[7] Acts of 1831, Ch. 102, Sec. 1.
[8] M. & C., Sec. 2711.
[9] Ibid., Sec. 2712.
[10] Ibid., Sec. 2703.
[11] Acts of 1831, Ch. 102, Sec. 2.
[12] M. & C., Secs. 2704-6.
[13] Jameson v. McCoy, 5 Humphrey, 118 (1871).
[14] Fisher’s Negroes v. Dabbs, 6 Yerger, 129 (1834).
[15] Ibid., 130.
[16] Andrews v. Page, 3 Heiskell, 660 (1870).
[17] Acts of 1833, Ch. 81, Secs. 1-2.
[18] Acts of 1842, Ch. 191, Sec. 1.
[19] The Case of F. Gray, 9 Humphrey, 515 (1848).
[20] Ibid., 516.
[21] Ibid., 515.
[22] Acts of 1849, Ch. 107, Sec. 1.
[23] Bridge Water v. Pride, 1 Sneed, 197 (1863).
[24] Acts of 1852, Ch. 300, Sec. 3.
[25] Acts of 1854, Ch. 50, Sec. 1.
[26] Boon v. Lancaster, 1 Sneed, 583-4 (1854).
[27] Twenty-seventh Annual Report of the American Anti-Slavery Society, 1861, pp. 215-6.
[28] Acts of 1858, Ch. 45, Secs. 1-4.
[29] Hale and Merritt, II, 300-301.
[30] Acts of 1806, Ch. 32, Sec. 1.
[31] Acts of 1807, Ch. 100, Sec. 1.
[32] Acts of 1825, Ch. 79, Sec. 3.
[33] Acts of 1842, Ch. 191, Sec. 5.
[34] Acts of 1831, Ch. 102, Sec. 1.
[35] Acts of 1826, Ch. 22, Sec. 6.
[36] Acts of 1829, Ch. 23, Sec. 21.
[37] Acts of 1852, Ch. 158, Sec. 1.
[38] McDonald, William, Select Charters Illustrative of American History, 1606-1775, 122, S. 5.
[39] McDonald, Op Cit., 123, Sec. 6.
[40] Col. Recs. of North Carolina, I, 639; State Recs. of N. C., XXIV, 14.
[41] Ibid., III, 93, 560.
[42] Ibid., IV, 106; Davis, James, Laws of North Carolina, 79.
[43] Davis, 177-180.
[44] North Carolina Constitution of 1776, Secs, 7, 8, and 9; Col. Recs., XXIII, 881.
[45] U. S. Statutes at Large, I, 108.
[46] Ibid., First Congress, 1790; Chap. VI, Sec. II, pp. 106-9.
[47] Constitution of Frankland, Sec. 4; Ramsey, J. G. M., Annals of Tennessee, p. 327.
[48] Journal of the Convention of 1796, p. 21.
[49] Ibid., p. 22.
[50] Constitution of 1796, Art. III, Sec. 1; see also Journal of the Convention of 1796, p. 16.
[51] Ibid., Art. I, Sec. 1.
[52] Kentucky Constitution of 1799, Art. 2, Sec. 8.
[53] Journal of the Convention of 1796, pp. 5-6.
[54] Caldwell, Joshua W., Constitutional History of Tennessee, 132.
[55] U. S. Census, 1870, I, Population, p. 12.
[56] Congressional Globe, 1st Session, 33d Congress, 1805; 2nd Session, 38th Congress, 284.
[57] The Works of Charles Sumner, X, 192.
[58] Buxton, Rev. Jarvis Bury, Reminiscences of the Bench and Fayetteville Bar, p. 93.
[59] Fisher’s Negroes v. Dabbs, 6 Yerger, 126 (1834).
[60] Nashville Republican, July 10, 1834.
[61] Nashville Republican and State Gazette, July 1, 1834.
[62] Nashville Republican and State Gazette, June 28, 1834.
[63] Journal of the Convention of 1834, p. 107.
[64] Nashville Republican and State Gazette, July 5, 1834.
[65] Nashville Republican and State Gazette, July 15, 1834.
[66] Journal of the Convention of 1834, p. 171.
[67] Ibid., p. 28.
[68] Ibid., p. 209.
[69] Acts of 1787, Ch. 6, Sec. 2.
[70] Acts of 1806, Ch. 32, Sec. 4.
[71] Acts of 1787, Ch. 6, Sec. 3.
[72] Acts of 1835, Ch. 58, Sec. 2.
[73] Acts of 1806, Ch. 32, Sec. 4.
[74] Acts of 1807, Ch. 100, Sec. 1.
[75] State v. Claiborne, 1 Meigs, 337 (1858).
[76] Fisher’s Negroes v. Dabbs, 6 Yerger, 131 (1834).
CHAPTER VII
Abolition
There was throughout the period of slavery in Tennessee a determined minority that favored its abolition. This minority was not confined to the non-slaveholders, but as late as 1834 slaveholders hoped that some method of abolition would finally be devised. This abolition sentiment expressed itself in various ways.