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Author: Bill Carey Publisher: ISBN: 9780972568043 Category : Languages : en Pages : 350
Book Description
A 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: Bill Carey Publisher: ISBN: 9780972568043 Category : Languages : en Pages : 350
Book Description
A 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: Frederic Bancroft Publisher: Burns & Oates ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 486
Book Description
Through 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 ISBN: 1439677638 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 172
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The Beginnings of 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: Elihu Embree Publisher: The Overmountain Press ISBN: 9780932807854 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 148
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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.
Author: Robert K. D. Colby Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0197578268 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 361
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During the Civil War, enslavers bought and sold thousands of people, extending a traffic in humanity that had long underpinned American slavery. Despite the pressures of blockades, economic collapse, and unfolding emancipation, the slave trade survived to the war's end. This book provides a vivid look at life within the trade in slaves and tells the story of the wartime slave trade from the perspective of both participants in it and those subjected to it.
Author: Bill Carey Publisher: ISBN: 9781577361787 Category : Business enterprises Languages : en Pages : 500
Book Description
A 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: Jack Lawrence Schermerhorn Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300192002 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 351
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"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 ISBN: 1416567410 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 432
Book Description
Traces 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, in an account complemented by dozens of rare photographs. 50,000 first printing.
Author: Bill Carey
Author: Bill Carey
Author: Frederic Bancroft
Author: Bill Carey
Author: Elihu Embree
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Author: Robert K. D. Colby
Author: Bill Carey
Author: Jack Lawrence Schermerhorn
Author: John Baker
Author: Joseph Sturge