Records of Campbell County, Tennessee, Register's Book C, 1817-1820
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Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,39 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Campbell County (Tenn.)
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Page : 104 pages
File Size : 43,39 MB
Release : 1937
Category : Campbell County (Tenn.)
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 18,56 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Campbell County (Tenn.)
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Page : 100 pages
File Size : 19,15 MB
Release : 19??
Category : Campbell County (Tenn.)
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Author : Mrs. John Trotwood Moore
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Page : pages
File Size : 29,73 MB
Release : 193?
Category : Campbell County (Tenn.)
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Page : 632 pages
File Size : 50,95 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Registers of births, etc
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Author : Hank Trent
Publisher : LSU Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 19,49 MB
Release : 2017-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0807165239
Historians have long discussed the interracial families of prominent slave dealers in Richmond, Virginia, and elsewhere, yet, until now, the story of slave trader Bacon Tait remained untold. Among the most prominent and wealthy citizens of Richmond, Bacon Tait embarked upon a striking and unexpected double life: that of a white slave trader married to a free black woman. In The Secret Life of Bacon Tait, Hank Trent tells Tait’s complete story for the first time, reconstructing the hidden aspects of his strange and often paradoxical life through meticulous research in lawsuits, newspapers, deeds, and other original records. Active and ambitious in a career notorious even among slave owners for its viciousness, Bacon Tait nevertheless claimed to be married to a free woman of color, Courtney Fountain, whose extended family were involved in the abolitionist movement and the Underground Railroad. As Trent reveals, Bacon Tait maintained his domestic sphere as a loving husband and father in a mixed-race family in the North while running a successful and ruthless slave-trading business in the South. Though he possessed legal control over thousands of other black women at different times, Trent argues that Tait remained loyal to his wife, avoiding the predatory sexual practices of many slave traders. No less remarkably, Courtney Tait and their four children received the benefits of Tait’s wealth while remaining close to her family of origin, many of whom spoke out against the practice of slavery and even fought in the Civil War on the side of the Union. In a fascinating display of historical detective work, Trent illuminates the worlds Bacon Tait and his family inhabited, from the complex partnerships and rivalries among slave traders to the anxieties surrounding free black populations in Courtney and Bacon Tait’s adopted city of Salem, Massachusetts. Tait’s double life illuminates the complex interplay of control, manipulation, love, hate, denigration, and respect among interracial families, all within the larger context of a society that revolved around the enslavement of black Americans by white traders.
Author : East Tennessee Historical Society
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Page : 188 pages
File Size : 48,68 MB
Release : 1954
Category : Tennessee, East
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Author : East Tennessee Historical Society
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Page : 486 pages
File Size : 10,8 MB
Release : 1953
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Author : Ruth Ketring Nuermberger
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 463 pages
File Size : 39,78 MB
Release : 2021-12-14
Category : History
ISBN : 0813194903
Of unique interest to the student of nineteenth century America is this account of the Alabama Clays, who in their private life were typical of the slaveholding aristocracy of the old South, but as lawyer-politicians played significant roles in state and national politics, in the development of the Democratic party, and in the affairs of the Confederacy. In the period from 1811 to 1915, the Clays were involved in many of the great problems confronting the South. This study of the Clay family includes accounts of the wartime legislation of the Confederate Congress and the activities of the Confederate Commission in Canada. Equally interesting to many readers will be the intimate view of social life in ante-bellum Washington and the story of the domestic struggles of a plantation family during and after the war, as revealed through the letters of Clement Claiborne Clay and his wife Virginia.
Author : Roger D. Hunt
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 50,59 MB
Release : 2013-11-26
Category : History
ISBN : 0786473185
This biographical dictionary documents the Union army colonels who commanded regiments from Indiana, Kentucky and Tennessee. Entries are arranged first by state and then by regiment, and provide a biographical sketch of each colonel focusing on his Civil War service. Many of the colonels covered herein never rose above that rank, failing to win promotion to brigadier general or brevet brigadier general, and have therefore received very little scholarly attention prior to this work.