Oversize 3-page form, printed with handwritten entries reflecting District 9, Dekalb County enrollment in state militia; has 81 entries for white males and 7 entries for "Cullard" [black] males. The call-up was brought about by the Militia...
Oversize forms providing the list of names of individuals and the jobs they were hired to perform. Forms specify the wide array of services performed by the Quartermaster in Nashville and list "colored employees" specifically and separately. The...
A black and white portrait of J.W. Thomas. Underneath is his signature and two sets of dates: "Mar.30-1880 to June 30-1880; Sept. 10-1884 to Feb.12-1906."
State government; Constitutions; Constitutional conventions; Law & legal affairs; Slavery; Freedmen; Suffrage; Lotteries
This first revision of the Tennessee Constitution addressed a variety of problems present in the original 1796 Constitution. Pages are handwritten on oversize paper and are laminated.