The Negro in Tennessee, 1790-1865

Excerpt: "This work was undertaken to discover the exact status of the negro in one of the border states. An effort has been made to give definite information as to the legal, social, economic, and religious condition of the negro from his introduction into slavery in Colonial Western North Carolina to the abolition of slavery in Tennessee in 1865. The study reveals the struggles of the slave from a status of servitude under the common law through the institution of slavery regulated by an exten