The Negro in Tennessee, 1790-1865

About this eBook

Author

Patterson, C. Perry (Caleb Perry), 1880-1971

Original Publication

United States: The University of Texas,1922.

Credits

Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)

Language

English

LoC Class

E300: History: America: Revolution to the Civil War (1783-1861)

Subject

African Americans -- Tennessee

Category

Text

Project Gutenberg

eBook-No. 67473

Release Date

February 22, 2022

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.THE NEGRO IN TENNESSEE, 1790-1865
2. 2.CONTENTS
3. 3.PREFACE
4. 4.CHAPTER I Introduction — I. The Status of the Negro in North Carolina from 1693-1790 — A. PRIVILEGES — — B. RESTRICTIONS — — 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
5. 5.CHAPTER II The Legal Status of the Slave in Tennessee — I. The Privileges of Slaves — — A. Hunting. — B. Travel. — C. Suits for Freedom. — D. Trial of Slaves. — II. Disabilities of Slaves — — III. Relation of the Master and Society — — A. Liabilities of the Master to Society. — B. Liabilities of Society to the Master for Abusing His Slave. — IV. The Patrol System — — V. Special Problems of Slave Government — — A. The Runaway. — B. Importation of Slaves. — C. The Stealing of Slaves. — D. Trading With Slaves. — E. Insurrections. — F. The Assembly of Slaves. — G. Punishment of Slaves — — VI. Title to Slaves — — VII. The Law of Increase — — VIII. The Legal Status of the Slave — — FOOTNOTES
6. 6.CHAPTER III Economics of Slavery in Tennessee — I. Slavery an Expression of the Soil. — II. The Management of the Plantation. — III. Was Slavery Profitable in Tennessee? — FOOTNOTES
7. 7.CHAPTER IV Anti-slavery Societies — FOOTNOTES
8. 8.CHAPTER V Religious and Social Aspects of Slavery — I. The Methodists. — II. The Baptists. — III. Cumberland Presbyterians. — IV. The Friends. — V. The Presbyterians. — VI. The Episcopalians. — FOOTNOTES
9. 9.CHAPTER VI Legal Status of the Free Negro — I. The Establishment of a Policy. — A. The Policy of North Carolina. — B. The Policy of Tennessee to 1831. — C. Changes in the Policy. — II. Registration of Free Negroes. — III. Protection of Free Negroes. — IV. The Suffrage for Free Negroes. — A. The Suffrage for Free Negroes in North Carolina. — B. Suffrage in the Convention of 1796. — C. Suffrage from 1796 to 1834. — D. Suffrage in the Convention of 1834. — V. Limitations Upon the Freedom of Free Negroes. — VI. The Legal Status of the Free Negro. — FOOTNOTES
10. 10.CHAPTER VII Abolition — I. Private Abolition. — A. METHODS. — B. THE EXTENT OF EMANCIPATION IN TENNESSEE. — 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
11. 11.CHAPTER VIII Conclusions
12. 12.BIBLIOGRAPHY — A. Sources. — I. Records. — II. Documents. — III. General Slave Treatises. — IV. North Carolina Codes. — V. Codes of Tennessee. — VI. Court Reports of North Carolina and Tennessee. — VII. Reports of the Comptroller to the General Assembly for the years 1850, 1855-6, 1856, 1857-8, and 1859-60. — VIII. Reports, Proceedings, and Minutes. — IX. Periodicals. — X. Newspapers. — XI. Petitions in the State Archives at Nashville in Manuscript covering period 1809-1834. — XII. Personal Writings and Reminiscences. — B. Secondary Works. — I. State Histories. — II. General Histories. — III. Biography. — IV. Church History.
13. 13.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.

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