The African-American History of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780-1930: Elites and Dilemmas by Sheila Hart, Bobby L. Lovett, Willard B. Gatewood

The African-American History of Nashville, Tennessee, 1780-1930: Elites and Dilemmas

Sheila Hart, Bobby L. Lovett, Willard B. Gatewood

320 pages first pub 1999 (editions)

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Since its founding, Nashville has been a center of black urban culture in the Upper South. Blacks—slave and free—made up 20 percent of Fort Nashborough’s settlers in 1779. From these early years through the Civil War, a growing black community in ...

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