Resources

Books:

 

Baker, John F. The Washingtons of Wessyngton: Stories of My Family’s Journey to Freedom. Atria Books, 2009.

 

Beckert, Sven. Empire of Cotton: A Global History. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015.

 

Clinton, Catherine. The Plantation Mistress: Woman’s World in the Old South. Pantheon Books, 1982.

 

Cooling, B. Franklin. To the Battles of Franklin and Nashville and Beyond: Stabilization and Reconstruction in Tennessee and Kentucky, 1864-1865.Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2011.

 

Fanto Deetz, Kelley. Bound to the fire: How Virginia’s Enslaved Cooks Helped Invent American Cuisine. University Press of Kentucky, 2017.

 

Groom, Winston. Shrouds of Glory: Atlanta to Nashville: The Last Great Campaign of the Civil War. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1995.

 

Doyle, Don Harrison. Nashville in the New South, 1880-1930. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1985.

 

Doyle, Don Harrison. New Men, New Cities, New South: Atlanta, Nashville, Charleston, Mobile, 1860-1910. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1990.

 

Durham, Walter T. Reluctant Partners: Nashville and the Union, July 1, 1863, to June 30, 1865. Nashville: Tennessee Historical Society, 1987.

 

Durham, Walter T. Nashville, the Occupied City: The First Seventeen Months, February 16, 1862, to June 30, 1863. Nashville, Tenn.: Tennessee Historical Society, 1985.

 

Jacobs, Harriet Ann. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: An Autobiographical Account of an Escaped Slave and Abolitionist. USA: First Skyhorse Publishing, 2015.

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Jones-Rogers, Stephanine E. They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South. Yale University Press, 2020.

 

Lee, Dan. Thomas J. Wood: A Biography of the Union General in the Civil War. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2012.

 

McDaniel, Karina, and Aubrey C Watson. Nashville Then & Now. London: Pavilion, 2014.

 

Morton-Young, Tommie. Black America Series: Nashville Tennessee. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Publishing, 2000.

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Rothman, Joshua. The Ledger and the Chain: How Domestic Slave Traders Shaped America. Basic Books, 2021.

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Smith, Michael Thomas. The 1864 Franklin-Nashville Campaign: The Finishing Stroke. Santa Barbara, California: Praeger, an imprint of ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2014.

 

Weld, Theodore Dwight. American Slavery as it is: Selections from the Testimony of a Thousand Witnesses. Mineola, NY: Dover Thrift Editions, 2017.

 

Online:

 

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936 to 1938 (includes a section on Tennessee). Library of Congress. https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/

 

Chronicling America. http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/. This online archive includes many early Tennessee Newspapers including the Nashville Globe (a Black newspaper published between 1910 and 1930).

 

Isaac Franklin Further Sources - https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/isaac-franklin/

https://www.nps.gov/places/franklin-and-armfield-office.htm

 

Nashville Public Library - http://www.library.nashville.org/

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The Slave Dwelling Project - https://slavedwellingproject.org/

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Tennessee Encyclopedia.net - https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/

 

Tennessee State Library and Archives (TSLA) - http://sos.tn.gov/tsla/history

 

Understanding Slavery Initiative: Supporting the Teaching and Learning of Transatlantic Histories and Legacies. http://www.understandingslavery.com/index.html