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own slaves, in 1836 the state government "organized a lottery to raise money for internal improvements (mainly road construction). Lottery prizes included assets such as land, a farm, steamboats and five slaves: a 45-year-old man named Charles, a 43-year-old woman named Nancy and three girls named
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law, and was initially comparatively "liberal." However, after statehood, as the fear of slave rebellion and the threat to slavery posed by abolitionism increased, the laws became increasingly punitive: after 1831, "punishments were increased and privileges and immunities were lessened and
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According to journalist-turned-local historian Bill Carey, who wrote a book examining the history of slavery in Tennessee through the lens of newspaper reports, slave sale ads, county-government notices in local papers, and
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In 2022, voters passed a measure that removed language in Tennessee state laws that permitted slavery or involuntary servitude as a form of punishment, a change intended to prevent abuses in the use of convict labor.
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Matilda (12), Rebecca (11) and Maria (6)." Hiring out of slave laborers was extremely common and provided significant household income for their enslavers.
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held that "ex-slaves had no inheritable blood" and thus could not transfer property by will to their siblings. The
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circumvented." Tennessee was one of five states that allowed slaves the right of a
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activism but slavery remained widespread in that region until emancipation.
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and thus the law regulating slavery in Tennessee was broadly derived from
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in Norris, Tennessee; originally located on the Merritt family lands in
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was one of the central hubs of the interstate slave trade, along with
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Runaways, Coffles and Fancy Girls: A History of Slavery in Tennessee
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beginning in 1827 but it was broadly flouted and repealed in 1854.
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Index

Slavery in Tennessee

Alfred Jackson
Hermitage
Andrew Jackson
Ladies' Hermitage Association
Southwest Territory
North Carolina
jury trial
anti-literacy laws
slave pass
39 lashes
interstate slave trading
Memphis, Tennessee
Washington
Richmond
Charleston
Savannah
New Orleans
Byrd Hill
Bolton brothers
Little brothers
Forrest brothers
Kentucky
Alabama
Mississippi
East Tennessee
abolitionism
colonization-movement
runaway slave ads

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