Abolition: Tennessee's First Civil Rights Movement

Creator(s)

Tennessee State Library & Archives

Files

Document Type

Video

Description

In this session of the Tennessee Talks Webinar series, we will trace Tennessee's abolitionist history through a variety of primary sources and explore strategies for utilizing such sources with students. While most textbooks focus on the efforts of Northern abolitionists such as William Lloyd Garrison and Sojourner Truth, Tennessee also had many active abolitionists in the early 1800s.

Publication Date

2023

Keywords

Tennessee Talks, Abolitionist, William Lloyd Garrison, Sojourner Truth, Thomas Embree, Everard Hall, Amos Dresser, Rev. J. W. Loguen, Anti-Slavery Society, Lost Creek Friends Church, emancipation, enslaved, Manumission Intelligencer

Recommended Citation

Tennessee State Library & Archives, "Abolition: Tennessee's First Civil Rights Movement" (2023). Tennessee Talks Webinars. 4.
https://digitaltennessee.tnsos.gov/tn_talks_webinars/4