ERA 5: 18501877

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ERA 5 1850-1877

• The Civil War and Reconstruction

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List of slaves owned by the McGavocks of
Williamson County
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Receipt for runaway slave, 1854
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Young Tennessee Confederates Posed for War
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Map of Civil War military prison
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Civil War era letter
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The Battle of Nashville
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The Carpet Bagger (a comic song)
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The Carpet Bagger (music lyrics)
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Former slaves at Wessyngton
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From Slavery to SharecroppingTobacco Labor
Contract
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The Freedmens Bureau, Memphis
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The Ku Klux Klan In Tennessee
Originally founded in 1866 in Pulaski, Tennessee,
the KKK evolved into a vigilante organization
that terrorized African Americans in the South
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Commerce at the Nashville Wharf, circa 1872-1874