- Collection:
- Volunteer Voices
- Title:
- Friend in Marshall County, TN to unknown recipient
- Date of Original:
- 1850/1877
- Subject:
- Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Tennessee
Violence--Tennessee--History--19th century
Presidents--United States Election--1868
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)
Sharecropping
African Americans—Legal status, laws, etc.
African Americans
Education
Civil rights
Politics and government - People:
- Brownlow, William Gannaway, 1805-1877
- Location:
- United States, Tennessee, Marshall County, 35.46886, -86.76502
United States, Tennessee, Marshall County, Lewisburg, 35.44924, -86.78889 - Medium:
- letters (correspondence)
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- The writer tells of the dangers of extreme violence towards Unionists and African-American at this time in central Tennessee. He says that the laws must be enforced for the situation to change. The signs his name only as "friend" because he fears repercussions if it fell into the wrong hands.
The University of Tennessee Libraries (Knoxville, Tennessee) is the digital publisher. - Metadata URL:
- https://digital.lib.utk.edu/collections/islandora/object/volvoices%3A15432
- Language:
- eng
- Original Collection:
- Digital Collection: The Growth of Democracy in Tennessee: A Grassroots Approach to Volunteer Voices
- Contributing Institution:
- University of Tennessee, Knoxville. Special Collections
- Rights:
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