- Collection:
- Volunteer Voices
- Title:
- Articles from Brownlow`s Knoxville Whig
- Date of Original:
- 1861/1865
1801/1861 - Subject:
- Slavery
Enslaved persons
Poetry
Newspaper editors
African Americans
Politics and government
Civil rights
Secession
Slaveholders
Oppression
Labor unions
Courthouses--Tennessee--Knoxville - People:
- Brownlow, W. B.
Hall, M. L.
Havely, Jacob
Murry, James W.
Preuss, H. Clay - Location:
- United States, Tennessee, Knox County, Knoxville, 35.96064, -83.92074
United States, Tennessee, Knox County, 35.99322, -83.93709 - Medium:
- newspaper clippings
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jp2
- Description:
- These newspaper clippings were written two months before the beginning of the Civil War. Articles include Six of the Market House Voters, which is about 34 men who voted for Secession and states only 4 were slave holders and 30 were oppressed by the General Government; the second clipping appears to be a poem or lyrics and is entitled God Save Our Noble Union, written by H. Clay Preuss; Wants to Purchase a Negro; and Clerk`s Sale advertising sale of town lots and a Negro woman, written by M. L. Hall, Clerk.
The University of Tennessee Libraries (Knoxville, Tennessee) is the digital publisher. - Metadata URL:
- https://digital.lib.utk.edu/collections/islandora/object/volvoices%3A9273
- 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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