Slavery--Tennessee--Anti-slavery movements
Subject
Subject Source: Unspecified ingested source
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Embree Family Papers
Collection — Box 1
Identifier: AppMs-0061
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of photocopies of manuscript transcriptions of correspondence from Evan Embree, who resided on the Nolichucky River, to his uncle, Abner Elleman of Bush River, South Carolina. The correspondence deals primarily with Quaker theology and some family and local news.
Dates:
1780 - 1807
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Embree Family Papers
Frederick S. Heiskell Papers
Collection
Identifier: AppMs-0022
Scope and Contents
The Frederick S. Heiskell Collection includes drafts of letters that were sent to Senator John Bell of Tennessee, 1848-1860; Heiskell family biographies and genealogies; political, family, and general correspondence, and financial records. The collection also contains documents relating to the Civil War, Knox County Ebenezar Church, livestock pedigrees, correspondence on railroads dating between 1838 and 1849, and Charleston Stock Market reports. Eight scrapbooks include newsclippings...
Dates:
1789 - 1882; Majority of material found within 1832 - 1882
Found in:
Archives of Appalachia
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Frederick S. Heiskell Papers
Judge Samuel C. Williams Notes and Typescript
Collection — Box A (Small Collections)
Identifier: AppMs-0013
Scope and Contents
The Judge Samuel C. Williams Notes and Typescript consist primarily photocopies of Williams' manuscript notes of early issues of Benjamin Lundy's The Genius of Universal Emancipation (referred to by Williams as The Genesis of Universal Emancipation) and Embree's History of the Emancipation Society of Tennessee, as well as the typescript of the same. The collection also includes a letter from Williams concerning his notes and two letters to William Flinn Rogers concerning the publication...
Dates:
1946
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