Digital Collections

Beyond Face Value: Depictions of Slavery in Southern Currency [online]. [Baton Rouge, La.: United States Civil War Center, Louisiana State University, 2000- [cited 13 August 2002]. Available from: http://www.lib.lsu.edu/cwc/BeyondFaceValue/beyondfacevalue.htm.
Three of the 75 notes in this collection were issued in Tennessee.

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 [online]. [Washington, D.C.]: Library of Congress, 2000. Available from: http://lcweb2.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html.
Select Browse All by State.

Slave Petitions [online]. Greensboro: Department of History, The University of North Carolina, 2000- [cited 2 August 2002]. Available from: http://history.uncg.edu/slaverypetitions/.
Samples from Loren Schweninger's massive slave petitions project. See in particular, Petition of Jonathan Bacon, et al., to the Tennessee General Assembly, ca. 1817.

Guides to Archival Collections

Slave Petitions [online]. Greensboro: Department of History, The University of North Carolina, 2000- [cited 2 August 2002]. Available from: http://history.uncg.edu/slaverypetitions/.
This site includes information on almost 3000 petitions, including over 400 from Tennessee. Select Search Petitions, and select "Tennessee" under the "State" option.

Tennessee State Library and Archives: Manuscript Collection Finding Aids

Microform Collections

Race, Slavery, and Free Blacks: Petitions to Southern Legislatures, 1777-1867. Bethesda, Md.: University Publications of America, 1998.

Records of the Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations from the Revolution through the Civil War. Frederick, Md.: University Publications of America, 1985- . Includes:

• A.R. Wynne Papers, 1818-1866, Sumner County, Tennessee [Series F, Pt. 1, Reel 23]
• Henry W. Jones Papers, 1803-1877 [Series F, Pt. 3, Reels 2-4]
• Hodges Family Papers, 1788-1889, Jefferson County, Tennessee: Collection #254 [Series H, Reels 25-27]
• Harrod C. erson Papers, 1854-1862, 1886, Haywood County, TN [Series I, Pt. 2, Reel 20]
• Tennessee and Kentucky [Series J, Pt. 8]

Southern Women and Their Families in the 19th Century: Papers and Diaries. Bethesda, Md.: University Publications of America, 1991- .

Selected Books & Articles

McCline, John. Slavery in the Clover Bottoms: John McCline's Narrative of His Life During Slavery and the Civil War. Edited by Jan Furman. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1998. 155p.

Miller, Randall M. "Letters from Nashville, 1862, II. 'Dear Master'." Tennessee Historical Quarterly 33 (1974): 85-92.
The text of two letters from a slave, Suzanna, to her master, General Harding.

Schweninger, Loren, ed. The Southern Debate over Slavery. Volume 1: Petitions to Southern Legislatures, 1778-1864. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2001.
This volume provides transcriptions of 160 petitions concerning slavery. Over 20 of the petitions were filed in Tennessee.

Special Projects

Slave Housing Survey [MTSU]