A slave deed bill of sale from Williamson County, Tennessee, for the transfer of a "girl slave named Mary" for the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars, from Joshua Reams to William Harrison, Jr. dated Feb. 2, 1841. The verso of this document...
A slave deed bill of sale for the acquisition of three slaves: "a woman named Betty about twenty one years of age, and her two children Louis-Randolph about four years of age, and William Henry about twelve months old." The document states that...
A slave deed bill of sale, witnessed on April 22, 1848, regarding the transfer of a slave from Robert Glass to William Harrison, Jr., of Williamson County, Tennessee. The document states that Glass sold to William Harrison, Jr. a "man called Sam...
A slave bill of sale documenting the purchase of a "boy named Sephus aged about six years" by William Harrison, Jr., from Timothy [Terrell?] in Williamson County, Tennessee on Jan. 18, 1844. The warrant of title refers to the sum of two hundred...
A photograph of Mt. Nebo Baptist Church located at 2416 Clifton Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. This congregation was founded in 1871 by Rev. Pharoah Benson, a former slave. The first church was built right across the street from the present day...
A photograph of South Harpeth Church of Christ located at 8727 Old Harding Road in Nashville, Tennessee. Said to be the oldest Church of Christ in Davidson County, the South Harpeth congregation first organized in 1812. The original building was...
A captioned photo from the Nashville Times (1940), about the death of two men who fell from scaffolding. The caption reads: “Two men traveled the course of this white line to their death when scaffolding gave way as they chinked cracks in the...
A photograph of the Capers Memorial Christian Methodist Episcopal (C.M.E.) Church located at 319 Fifteenth Avenue North, Nashville, Tennessee. This building was built in 1925 by the nation's first African-American-owned architectural firm,...
A photograph of the National Baptist Publishing Board building on Second Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. The National Baptist Publishing Board began as Dr. R.H. Boyd's dream for African Americans to publish Baptist Sunday School materials for...
A photograph of First Baptist Church East Nashville. This African American church was founded in 1866 by the Reverend Randall B. Vandavall, a slave born on March 23, 1832 at Neely's Bend. In the early years, the church was called Vandavall's...