{"id":178,"date":"2024-04-03T18:52:07","date_gmt":"2024-04-03T23:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/?p=178"},"modified":"2024-04-03T18:52:07","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T23:52:07","slug":"african-american","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/african-american\/","title":{"rendered":"African American"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3 id=\"sites-page-title-header\" align=\"left\"><span id=\"sites-page-title\" dir=\"ltr\" tabindex=\"-1\">African Americans<\/span><\/h3>\n<div id=\"sites-canvas-main\" class=\"sites-canvas-main\">\n<div id=\"sites-canvas-main-content\">\n<table class=\"sites-layout-name-one-column sites-layout-hbox\" cellspacing=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td class=\"sites-layout-tile sites-tile-name-content-1\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210126042046\/http:\/\/blacknashville.wordpress.com\/black-nashville-a-bibliography\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Black Nashville: A Bibliography<\/a>, available online, courtesy:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210126042046\/http:\/\/blacknashville.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Black Nashville Genealogy &amp; History <\/a>blog.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210126042046\/https:\/\/www.freedmensbureau.com\/tennessee\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tennessee Freedman&#8217;s Bureau Online<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a name=\"TOC-Tennessee-Freedmen-s-Bureau-Field-Office-Records-1865-1872\"><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210126042046\/https:\/\/www.familysearch.org\/search\/collection\/2333777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Tennessee, Freedmen&#8217;s Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210126042046\/http:\/\/digital.mtsu.edu\/cdm\/landingpage\/collection\/p15838coll1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Freedman&#8217;s Bureau Collection at MTSU<\/a>]<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210126042046\/https:\/\/teva.contentdm.oclc.org\/digital\/collection\/reconaa\/id\/172\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The Freedman&#8217;s Bureau at Tennessee Virtual Archives<\/a><a name=\"TOC-Waldrep-G.C.-Free-Colored-Heads-of-Household-in-the-1820-Tennessee-Census-available-online-courtesy:-Free-African-Americans-website.-Includes-free-African-Americans-in-this-county.-\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><em><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Waldrep, G.C. &#8220;&#8216;Free Colored&#8217; Heads of Household in the 1820 Tennessee Census,&#8221;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210126042046\/http:\/\/www.freeafricanamericans.com\/Tenn_1820.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">available online<\/a>, courtesy:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210126042046\/http:\/\/www.freeafricanamericans.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Free African Americans website<\/a>. [Includes free African Americans in this county.]<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210126042046\/http:\/\/grahamslaverecords.wix.com\/graham-slave-records\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Daniel Graham Slave Records<\/a> &#8211; site by Konnetta Alexander&nbsp;<br \/>\n<\/span><\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210126042046\/http:\/\/state.tn.us\/tsla\/history\/military\/fortnegley1.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Employment Rolls and Nonpayment Rolls<\/a>&nbsp;of Negroes Employed in the Defenses of <\/span><\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">Nashville, Tennessee, 1862-1863 Index On-line.<\/span><\/div>\n<dl>\n<dd><span style=\"font-size: 12pt;\">In 1862 Nashville built a series of forts around the city. The project was built by Union soldiers and impressed slaves and free black workers in just five months. This site lists the laborers employed August 1, 1862 to April 1, 1863. The site gives the name of the slave, the slave owner and the file number.<\/span><\/dd>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<dd><\/dd>\n<dd>For a case study of how to trace a slave family in early Nashville, study:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Franklin, John Hope and Loren Schweninger.&nbsp;<i>In Search of the Promised Land: A Slave Family in the Old South<\/i>. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210126042046\/https:\/\/familysearch.org\/search\/catalog\/1335508\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FHL Book 929.273 T361f<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/dd>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; African Americans Black Nashville: A Bibliography, available online, courtesy:&nbsp;Black Nashville Genealogy &amp; History blog. Tennessee Freedman&#8217;s Bureau Online Tennessee, Freedmen&#8217;s Bureau Field Office Records, 1865-1872 Freedman&#8217;s Bureau Collection at MTSU]The Freedman&#8217;s Bureau at Tennessee Virtual Archives &nbsp; Waldrep, G.C. <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/african-american\/\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-african-american"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":180,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions\/180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tngenweb.org\/davidsontn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}