The Emancipator

The Emancipator

Author: Elihu Embree

Publisher: The Overmountain Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 148

ISBN-13: 9780932807854

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Elihu 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.


GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE OF TH

GOVERNMENT OF THE PEOPLE OF TH

Author: T. C. (Thomas Conner) 1845 Karns

Publisher: Wentworth Press

Published: 2016-08-26

Total Pages: 154

ISBN-13: 9781362643531

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.


Tennessee

Tennessee

Author: Barbara Peck

Publisher: Gareth Stevens Publishing LLLP

Published: 2002-07-02

Total Pages: 52

ISBN-13: 9780836851458

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Illustrations and text present the history, geography, people, politics and government, economy, and social life and customs of the Volunteer State.


Constitution of the State of Tennessee

Constitution of the State of Tennessee

Author: The State of Tennessee

Publisher: Good Press

Published: 2021-04-11

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13:

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The Constitution of the State of Tennessee defines the form, structure, activities, character, and fundamental rules (and means for changing them) of the U.S. State of Tennessee. The original constitution of Tennessee came into effect on June 1, 1796, concurrent with the state's admission to the Union. A second version of the constitution was adopted in 1835. A third constitution was adopted in 1870 and is the one still in use today, with subsequent amendments.


Tennessee's Radical Army

Tennessee's Radical Army

Author: Ben H. Severance

Publisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 9781572333628

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In post-Civil War Tennessee, Severance studies the influence of Republican governor William Brownlow's deployment of the partisan Tennessee State Guard, two thousand men of whom five hundred were African-American members. This militia enforced the Reconstruction policies by policing elections, protecting recent freedman, and operating against paramilitary groups like the Ku Klux Klan.