Slavery on the Tennessee FrontierTennessee American Revolution Bicentennial Commission, 1977 - 26 sider Discusses slavery in Tennessee from the last quarter of the seventeenth century to the granting of full citizenship and suffrage to all blacks with the adoption of a new state constitution in 1870. |
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