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Author: Bill Carey
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Published: 2018-04-10
Total Pages: 350
ISBN-13: 9780972568043
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA book that details aspects of slavery in Tennessee and its relationship with the economy, newspapers and the government. Based largely on newspaper advertisements and first-person accounts, this book is full of revelations that prove that slavery was a much bigger part of Tennessee's culture than people realize today.
Author: Brown
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Published: 1855
Total Pages: 266
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Frederic Bancroft
Publisher: Burns & Oates
Published: 1959
Total Pages: 486
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough correspondence with people involved in the slave trade and interviews with former slaves, Bancroft exposed the commercial aspects of the American slave trade, including the breeding of slaves for future sale, the separation of slave families, the profitability of the trade, and the integration of slave traders into the highest ranks of southern society.
Author: Bill Carey
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Published: 2023-04-17
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 1467153893
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Beginnings of the The Volunteer State Tennessee was a remote place in 1810. By 1850, some of the most influential people in America had come from Tennessee, such as Sequoyah, David Crockett, the filibuster William Walker and the slave trader Isaac Franklin. Learn about the state's first steamboats and its initial telegraph message. Read newly discovered accounts from the Trail of Tears. Hop along the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad and relive the glory and tragedy. Author and columnist Bill Carey details these stories and more on early history in The Volunteer State.
Author: Jack Lawrence Schermerhorn
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2015-01-01
Total Pages: 351
ISBN-13: 0300192002
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Focuses on networks of people, information, conveyances, and other resources and technologies that moved slave-based products from suppliers to buyers and users." (page 3) The book examines the credit and financial systems that grew up around trade in slaves and products made by slaves.
Author: John Baker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 2010-01-05
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1416567410
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTraces the author's thirty-year research into his slave ancestry, describing the history of the massive tobacco plantation where his ancestors worked and his family's extensive genealogical legacy.
Author: Bill Carey
Publisher:
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 500
ISBN-13: 9781577361787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA business history that is both accurate and interesting is a rare find. In this comprehensive volume, Bill Carey tells the inside stories of the most important businesses in Nashville history, mixing fascinating anecdotes with bottom-line analyses to give a perspective of Nashville that has never been captured before. It's a complete history of Genesco, an apparel giant led by Maxey Jarman that fell on hard times in the 1970s. Carey chronicles the National Life & Accident Insurance Co., a business so important that it helped Nashville become the home of country music and a major tourist destination. He also tells the bizarre saga of Minnie Pearl's Fried Chicken, a company founded by brothers John Jay and Henry Hooker that went from stock market darling to legendary failure in only a few months.
Author: John Rice Irwin
Publisher: Schiffer Pub Limited
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9780887400537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHere is a moving literary portrait of real 20th century pioneer, Alex Stewart, a cooper, father of 13, farmer, logger, railroad man, and do-it-yourself interpreter of his rugged homeland in the mountains of Tennessee. His courage, humor and strength have endeared him to all who knew him, and now we can meet him through the book.
Author: Elihu Embree
Publisher: The Overmountain Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780932807854
DOWNLOAD EBOOKElihu Embree and his family were Quakers who were committed to the cause of abolishing slavery in the American South. Over a few short years, he raised the public consciousness in East Tennessee and achieved wide recognition with the publication ofThe Emancipator, the first periodical in the United States devoted solely to the abolitionist cause. The seven issues of the monthly publication are reproduced here, together with a brief history of Elihu and the Embree family’s migration from France to Washington County, Tennessee.
Author: Joseph Sturge
Publisher: London : Hamilton, Adams
Published: 1842
Total Pages: 338
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