Tennessee Slavery Statutes

Coverage: 1803-1865

Volumes:

Joint Resolution to adjourn December 16, 1865, and meet again January 8, 1866. (1865.1)
House Resolution Directory to the Committee on Freedmen. (1865.1)
An Act to Incorporate the Nashville Colored Mechanics' Association. (1865.1)
An Act to Incorporate the First Colored Baptist Church of Nashville, Tennessee. (1865.1)
An Act to Incorporate the Nashville Colored Benevolent Society. (1865.1)
Relinquishment by the State to all right, claim, etc., to the Estate of George Gee, deceased, etc. (1865.1)
An Act to Legalize Certain Marriages. (1865.1)
An Act to amend An Act to do Justice and render persons of African and Indian descent competent witnesses in the Courts of this State. (1865.1)
An Act to amend the Laws in regard to the Tennessee Hospital for the Insane. (1865.1)
An Act to define the term Persons of Color. and to declare the rights of such persons (1865.1)
An Act to do Justice and render persons of African and Indian descent Competent Witnesses in the Courts of this State. (1865.1)
An Act to Repeal Sections 2728 and 2729 Article 4, Chapter 7, of the Code of Tennessee. (1865.1)
An Act to Amend the Laws controlling the Asylum for the Insane. (1865.1)
Joint Resolution adopting the Amendments of the Constitution of the United States Abolishing Slavery. (1865.4)
An Act to pay the current expenses for this Session of the General Assembly, and for other purposes. (1865.4)
Governor's Message. (1865.4)
An Act to defray the expenses of the General Assembly of 1861 and 1862. (1862)
An Act to provide Nurses for Sick Soldiers. (1862)
Joint Resolution by the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee. (1861.1)
Resolutions proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States. (1861.1)
Joint Resolution adopted by the Legislature of Tennessee in regard to coercion. (1861.1)
Resolution of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee. (1861.1)
Governor's Message to the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Tennessee. Nashville. (1861.1)
An Act to amend sections 2682, 2683, 2684, and 4765 of the Code, and for other purposes. (1861.4)
An Act to prevent the Collection of Debts owing by citizens of Tennessee to citizens of the non-slaveholding States, during hostilities. (1861.4)
Convention between the State of Tennessee and the Confederate States of America. (1861.4)
Message of the Governor to the Senate and the House of Representatives. Nashville. (1861.4)
An Ordinance for the Adoption of the Constitution of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America. (1861.4)
An Act to submit to a vote of the people a Declaration of Independence, and for other purposes. (1861.4)
Governor's Message to the Senate and House of Representatives. Nashville. (1861.4)
Governor's Message to the Senate and House of Representatives. Nashville. (1861.4)
Joint Resolution on States' Rights. (1859)
Joint Resolution requesting Senators and Representatives in Congress. (1859)
Resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee. (1859)
An Act to extend the corporate limits of the town of LaGrange, reduce the several acts of incorporation into one, and amend the same, and for other purposes. (1859)
An Act for the relief of A.P. Smith, Trustee of John Goodrich, deceased, and J.C. Goodrich, Administrator of said deceased, and for other purposes. (1859)
An Act to incorporate the town of Middleburg, and for other purposes. (1859)
An Act to amend the charter of the city of Memphis, and for other purposes. (1859)
An Act to incorporate the United Synod of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. (1859)
An Act to defray the expenses of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, with the Report of the Committee on Finance. (1859)
An Act for the relief of Negroes who have been set free by their Masters, who have provided no means to transport them to the Western Coast of Africa. (1859)
An Act to regulate Tippling and Tippling Houses. (1859)
An Act to amend the Criminal Laws of this State. (1859)
An Act to amend Sections 567, 568, 569 and 570 of the Code. (1859)
An Act to amend Section 3338 of the Code. (1859)
An Act to amend Section 2145, of the Code. (1859)
An Act to amend the Road Law. (1859)
An Act to amend Sec. 563, paragraph 3 of the Code of Tennessee. (1859)
An Act to amend an act requiring the sale of land and slaves to be advertised in a newspaper. (1857)
An Act to amend the law in relation to the punishment of slaves. (1857)
An Act to secure medical fees under certain circumstances. (1857)
An Act providing for the voluntary enslavement of free persons of color in this State. (1857)
An Act in relation to the assessment and taxes on hired slaves. (1857)
An Act to punish burning by slaves. (1857)
An Act to amend the charter of the city of Knoxville, and to incorporate the town of Manchester, in Coffee county; to amend the charter of the city of Memphis; to amend the charter of the town of McMinnville, and to amend the second section of an act. (1857)
An Act to defray the expenses of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, with the Report of the Committee on Finance. (1855)
An Act to regulate and define the fees of the Clerks of the Supreme, Chancery, Circuit and County Courts, Sheriffs, Coroners, Constables, Justices of the Peace, Sailors, Surveyors, Notaries Public, and Sealers of Weights and Measures, Clerks of the Criminal Courts, and for other purposes. (1855)
An Act for the benefit of the Citizens of Columbia, and for other purposes. (1855)
An Act to amend the charter of the city of Nashville. (1855)
An Act for the relief of the heirs and devisees of M. Jules Godeau d'Eutraigues, and Madame Agathe Garaud d'Eutraigues, and for other purposes. (1855)
An Act for the relief of R.T. Daniel, of the County of Stewart, and for other purposes. (1855)
An Act for the Benefit of James Mitchell, and for other purposes. (1855)
An Act to amend the acts incorporating the town of Gallatin, in the County of Sumner, and for other purposes. (1855)
An Act to amend the Charter of the South Carolina, Tennessee, and Kentucky Railroad Company. (1855)
An Act for the benefit of Lizzy, Bob, Susan, Violet, Reynolds, Jacob and Alexander Crouse, free persons of color, citizens of Stewart County. (1855)
An Act to amend the Charter of the City of Nashville, and to amend the section of the act of 1851, chapter 13, entitled An act to incorporate the City of Chattanooga (1855)
An Act to Amend the Practice in the Trial of Criminal Cases, and for other purposes. (1855)
An Act to provide for the Payment of Costs in Prosecutions against Slaves. (1855)
An Act requiring the sale of Lands or Slaves to be advertised in a newspaper. (1855)
An Act to amend the Revenue Laws of this State, and to provide for a proper Assessment. (1855)
An Act to amend the Criminal Laws of this State, and for other purposes. (1855)
An Act to repeal, in part, the act of 1826, chapter 22. (1855)
An Act to amend, and reduce into one, the acts relating to the charter of the town of Clarksville. (1855)
An Act to defray the expenses of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, with the report of the Committee on Finance annexed. (1853)
An Act to incorporate the Nashville and Knoxville Railroad Company. (1853)
An Act to incorporate the Mechanic's Library Association of Fayetteville, and to reduce the several acts incorporating the town of Jackson into one act and to amend the same. (1853)
An Act to incorporate the Tennessee Western and Charleston Railroad Company. (1853)
An Act to amend the charter of the city of Memphis. (1853)
An Act for the benefit of Wm. H. Eanes. (1853)
An Act to repeal an act entitled an act, to repeal so much of the forty-eighth section of an act now in force in this State, as provides for the trial of Slaves for Capital offences, and directing the mode of trial in future. (1853)
An Act for the better protection of the bodies of deceased persons. (1853)
An Act to regulate the emancipation of slaves, and to provide for the transportation of free persons of color to the western coast of Africa. (1853)
An Act to incorporate the town of Sommerville in the county of Fayette. (1853)
Federal Resolutions. (1851)
An Act to defray the expenses of the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, with the report of the Committee on Finance annexed. (1851)
An Act to incorporate the Nashville and Cincinnati Railroad Company. (1851)
An Act to direct and authorize the Secretary of State to procure and furnish to new counties certain decisions of the Supreme Court of this State, and for other purposes. (1851)
An Act to amend the several acts passed to incorporate the town of Knoxville, and for other purposes. (1851)
An Act to incorporate the Grayson Turnpike Company in Marion county, and to incorporate the Brownsville and Raleigh Plank Road Company. (1851)
An Act to amend the laws regulating the fees of Justices of the Peace and Constables, and for other purposes. (1851)
An Act to charter the Lexington and Knoxville Railroad Company, and for other purposes. (1851)
An Act to amend the 2d section of an act. (1851)
An Act to amend the Criminal Laws of this State. (1851)
An Act to construe the laws of this State in relation to free persons of color. (1851)
An Act to provide for free indigent children of color, in this State. (1851)
An Act to prevent abuses in taking up slaves as runaways. (1851)
An Act to incorporate the Nashville and North Western Railroad Company. (1851)
An Act to incorporate the City of Chattanooga and for other purposes. (1851)
An Act to defray the expenses of the General Assembly, with the Report of the Committee on Finance annexed. (1849)
An Act to amend the laws in relation to the sales of property under execution. (1849)
An Act to provide punishment for the commission of rape by a free negro, and for the punishment of a negro guilty of being an accessary before the fact, to murder in the first degree. (1849)
An Act to amend the Act of 1842, ch. 191. (1849)
An Act to secure the payment of certain legal fees of public officers of this State. (1849)
An Act to amend an act to incorporate the town of Pulaski in the county of Giles. (1849)
An Act to give Circuit Courts the power to inquire into the consideration of instruments under seal. (1849)
An Act to defray the expenses of the General Assembly, with the Report of the Committee on Finance annexed. (1847)
An Act to incorporate the town of Richmond, in Bedford county; to fix the time of holding the Chancery Court at Rutledge, and for other purposes. (1847)
An Act to incorporate the Nashville and Sparta Rail Road and Mining Company. (1847)
An Act to reduce the several acts incorporating the Town of Nashville into one act, and to amend the same. (1847)
An Act to amend the Revenue Laws of this State. (1847)
An Act to incorporate the Mobile and Ohio Rail Road Company, and the Tennessee Central Rail Road Company. (1847)
An Act to reduce the several acts, incorporating the Town of Memphis, into one act, and to amend the same. (1847)
An Act to authorize appeals from judgments of conviction, against slaves, before Justices of the Peace. (1847)
An Act to incorporate the Literary Institution founded by Isaac Franklin. (1847)
An Act to defray the expenses of the present session of the General Assembly with the report of the committee on Finance annexed. (1845)
An Act to incorporate the town of Clarksville. (1845)
An Act to extend the provisions of the act of February 4th, 1842. (1845)
An Act to incorporate the Memphis and Charleston Rail Road Company. (1845)
An Act to tax and regulate Tippling and Tippling houses, and to increase the Revenue. (1845)
An Act to Incorporate the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad Company. (1845)
An Act to defray the expenses of the present General Assembly, with a Report of the Joint Committee of Finance, which is made part of this Bill. (1843)
An Act to provide in certain cases, for the disposition of slave acquitted of Felony, on the plea of insanity. (1843)
An Act to authorize the Mayor and Alderman of any incorporated town in this State, to employ runaway slaves committed to the Jail of any county, for the public improvement of said town. (1843)
An Act to repeal the act of 1833, chapter 64, in reference to colonization. (1843)
An Act to amend the act of 1835, chapter 75. (1841)
An Act to amend the laws now in force in relation to free persons of color. (1841)
An Act to amend the penal laws of this State. (1841)
An Act making appropriations to defray the expenses of the present General Assembly. (1841)
An Act to prohibit the practice of permitting slaves to act as if they were free persons of color. (1839)
An Act to explain and extend the provisions of the act of 1794, chap. 1, section 32. (1839)
An Act to exempt persons disabled by sickness or other causes from working on public roads. (1839)
An Act making an appropriation of money to defray the expenses of the present session of the General Assembly. (1837)
An Act to extend the jurisdiction of the Circuit Courts. (1837)
An Act to repeal part of an act, entitled an act supplemental to an act to establish Circuit Courts. (1837)
An Act more effectually to preserve order and to prevent accidents on Turnpike and McAdamized roads. (1837)
An Act to amend an act entitled an act to amend the act incorporating the town of Clarksville, and to increase and extend the powers of the Mayor and Aldermen of said town, and for other purposes. (1837)
An Act to amend an act entitled An act to amend an act to incorporate the inhabitants of the Town of Nashville in the County of Davidson so far as the same relates to the Town of Franklin in the County of Williamson (1837)
An Act making an appropriation of money to defray the expenses of the present General Assembly. (1835)
An Act to amend the penal laws of this State. (1835)
An Act to amend the penal laws of the State. (1835)
An Act to regulate Free Negroes, and for other purposes. (1835)
An Act to prevent the publication or circulation in this State of seditious pamphlets and papers. (1835)
An Act supplemental to an act entitled, An act to establish Circuit Courts (1835)
An Act setting forth the property, real and personal, and the privileges and occupations liable to taxation in this State. (1835)
Constitution of the State of Tennessee. Article 4. (1835)
An Act to explain an act, entitled an act concerning free persons of color (1833)
An Act to amend the criminal laws of this State for the trial of Slaves. (1833)
An Act to aid the society for the colonization of the free black population of the State of Tennessee, on the coast of Africa. (1833)
An Act to amend an act, entitled an act more effectually to prevent the owners of steam boats and stages from carrying off slaves without the knowledge or consent of their owners. (1833)
An Act more effectually to prevent the owners of steam boats and stages from carrying off slaves, without the knowledge or consent of the owners. (1833)
An Act for the relief of Samuel T. Smith. (1833)
An Act to authorize the county court of Roane county, to emancipate Jane, a slave. (1833)
An Act to emancipate Stephen Lytle, and others. (1833)
An Act to authorize Joshua Thurman to emancipate his sister Harriet. (1833)
An Act better to provide for the government of the corporation of the town of Elkton, in Giles county. (1833)
An Act to authorize Thomas N. Clark, of Roane county, to emancipate a slave, named Peter Hawkins. (1833)
An Act authorizing H.R.W. Hill to emancipate a negro woman named Penelope, a slave, and her child. (1833)
An Act to authorize Anthony Foster to emancipate certain slaves. (1833)
An Act to authorize the county court of Blount county to emancipate George, a slave. (1833)
An Act to emancipate Loo, a man of colour, Caroline his wife and Martha Ann his daughter. (1833)
An Act for the relief of Cupid and Major, slaves, the property of Robert I. Moore and David M. Harding. (1833)
An Act for the benefit of Charles, a slave, at present the property of John Beatty, of the county of Davidson. (1833)
An Act to authorize Thomas Hankins and John Large, Executors of the estate of William Hankins, deceased, of Grainger county, to emancipate a negro man, Samuel. (1833)
An Act authorizing Joseph Hunter to emancipate a slave. (1833)
An Act to authorize Thomas Suggett to emancipate his slave Caesar. (1833)
An Act to authorize the county court of Washington county, to emancipate the slaves of the estate of John Gates, deceased, late of said county. (1833)
An Act for the benefit of Harriet and her infant daughter Sarah. (1833)
An Act to authorize York Freeman, a free man of color, to emancipate his wife Judy. (1833)
An Act for the relief of James, a slave. (1833)
An Act for the benefit of Hardy, a man of color, of Blount county. (1833)
An Act to authorize the county court of the county of Davidson to order certain slaves to be sold. (1833)
An Act for the relief of Zachariah Robinson, a free man of color, of Gibson county. (1833)
An Act to authorize the Executors of Edward Holmes, deceased, to emancipate Lydia, a slave, according to the last will and testament of said Holmes. (1833)
An Act to amend and explain an Act entitled An Act to tax the retailers of spirituous liquors (1832)
An Act for the benefit of Benjamin James, a free man of color. (1832)
An Act to authorize Mary Humphreys of Carter county to emancipate certain persons therein named. (1832)
An Act for the relief of Mary Harris. (1832)
An Act for the benefit of Thomas J. Barker, a man of colour. (1832)
An Act to authorize Henry Ripley, of the county of Greene, to emancipate his slave William. (1832)
A Resolution directory to the Treasurer of Middle Tennessee. (1831)
An Act to amend the laws of this State in relation to the government of slaves and free persons of colour. (1831)
An Act concerning free persons of colour, and for other purposes. (1831)
An Act to explain and amend an act. (1831)
An Act to amend the Registration Laws of this State, and for other purposes. (1831)
An Act to regulate the fees of the Clerks of the different courts of this State. (1831)
An Act to punish negroes and others for selling spirituous liquors to negroes. (1829)
An Act more effectually to provide for Emancipating Slaves. (1829)
An Act to reform and amend the Penal Laws of the State of Tennessee. (1829)
An Act to compel slave holders to work on roads and for other purposes. (1827)
An Act prescribing the duties of executors and administrators in certain cases. (1827)
An Act for the relief of Thomas Simpson of Overton county. (1827)
An Act for the relief of Sampson, a free man of colour. (1827)
An Act revising and amending the laws prohibiting the introduction of slaves into this State, as articles of merchandize. (1826)
An Act for the relief of John Pavat of Humphreys county. (1826)
An Act to emancipate the persons therein named. (1825)
An Act for the benefit of Richard Gamble, an idiot of Sullivan county. (1825)
An Act to emancipate Leethy, a negro woman and her son Ben, the slaves of John Etter. (1825)
An Act [to] appropriate a part of the State tax to county purposes. (1825)
An Act respecting runaway slaves. (1825)
An Act to revise and amend the Militia laws of this state. (1825)
An Act to repeal part of an act. (1825)
An Act to prescribe the mode for the trial of slaves. (1825)
An Act to prevent certain children of color from inheriting the estate of their mother's husband. (1825)
An Act to emancipate certain persons therein named. (1824)
An Act to emancipate the persons therein named. (1824)
An Act to authorize the justices of the peace in Greene county to lay and collect a tax for the purpose of finishing the new court-house, and for other purposes. (1824)
An Act to repeal an act, entitled An act for the relief of Lewis King, a free man of colour (1823)
An Act directory to the County Court of Rutherford County. (1823)
An Act to repeal the fourth section of an act, entitled An act to suppress Tippling-shops, and for other purposes (1823)
An Act prescribing the condition of the bond required to be given by the purchaser of a slave at execution sales. (1823)
An Act to amend the several laws regulating proceedings on Executions. (1823)
An Act for the relief of Robert Johnston, Executor of the last will and testament of David Beaty, deceased. (1822)
An Act for the benefit of Jeremiah Daniel and Julius Daniel. (1822)
An Act to amend the law concerning Marriage. (1822)
An Act for the relief of Lewis King, a free man of color. (1821)
An Act to amend an act. (1821)
An Act to amend an act entitled, An act to prevent the sacrifice of real estate (1821)
An Act to prevent a sacrifice of real estate, and for other purposes. (1820)
An Act authorising Madison M'Laurine, of Overton county, to open a turnpike road. (1820)
An Act for the relief of Jonas Bedford. (1820)
An Act to authorise the county court of Washington, to lay a tax for the purpose of building a court house, prison, and stocks in the town of Jonesborough, and other purposes. (1819)
An Act to amend the laws in force for the trial of slaves. (1819)
An Act to open and establish a turnpike road from a point at or near Davidsons on Piles' turnpike road, to intersect the Cumberland turnpike road, between Robert Johnston's and the standing stone and for other purposes. (1819)
An Act to authorise a tax to be laid in the county of Robertson, to build a court-house. (1817)
An Act regulating the proceedings in certain suits therein specified. (1817)
An Act to authorise George Gordon and Alexander S. Outlaw, to open a Turn-pike road, leading from Curtin's ferry, on Nolichucky river in Greene county, to the Painted Rock on French Broad river, crossing the Meadow creek and Paint mountain at Loyds' gap. (1817)
An Act to appoint a suitable person to open and keep in repair that part of the road leading from South West Point to Carthage which lies on Cumberland mountain and to keep a turnpike thereon. (1815)
An Act to amend an act, entitled an act to condense and bring into view the revenue laws of this state (1815)
An Act to establish and confirm a bridge across Powell's River, in Claiborne county, and the rate of toll. (1815)
An Act to repeal so much of the forty-eighth section of the act now in force in the state, as provides for the trial of slaves for capital offences, and directing the mode of trial in future. (1815)
An Act to provide for opening and keeping in repair that part of the road leading from Virginia and North Carolina to Kentucky, which lies between the cross roads at the place called Bean's Station, in Grainger county, and the ford of Sycamore creek in Claiborne county. (1815)
An Act to amend an act, entitled an act to prohibit the importation of slaves into this State (1815)
An Act to suppress tipling shops and for other purposes. (1813)
An Act for the benefit of the widows of intestates and for other purposes. (1813)
An Act to condense and bring into view the Revenue laws of this state and to amend the same. (1813)
An Act for the better regulation of the town of Washington in the county of Rhea. (1813)
An Act making the beating of any slave or slaves the property of another an indictable offence. (1813)
An Act authorizing the county court of Carter to appoint a person to put in repair the road leading from James People's up Doe river, to the state line on the Yellow mountain, and to erect a turn-pike thereon. (1813)
An Act to regulate the town of Sparta in the county of White. (1813)
An Act for the regulation of the town of Murfreesborough. (1813)
An Act to prohibit the importation of slaves into this state for the term of five years. (1812)
An Act authorizing Moses Fisk to open a Turnpike Road. (1812)
An Act to provide for the emancipation of George Barnett. (1812)
An Act for the better regulation of the towns of Shelbyville and Fayetteville, in the counties of Bedford and Lincoln. (1811)
An Act for taking an enumeration of the free taxable inhabitants of this State. (1811)
An Act to amend an act entitled, An act to amend the law in force and use concerning free negroes, mulattoes and slaves (1807)
An Act for the regulation of the town of Clarksville. (1807)
An Act concerning Moses Brown. (1805)
An Act to empower the court of Sevier county to lay a tax when necessary for the purpose of repairing the court house, prison, and stocks in said county. (1803)
An Act appointing commissioners to fix on a place to erect a court house, prison and stocks in Smith county. (1803)
An Act to divide the county of Montgomery and form a new county out of the lower part thereof. (1803)
An Act supplementary to an act entitled An act for the regulating the town of Jonesborough (1803)
An Act to prohibit any person from using words in the hearing of any slave or person of colour, either publicly or privately, that may have a tendency to inflame their minds, or induce them to insurrection; and for other purposes. (1803)
An Act to ascertain what property in this State shall be deemed taxable, and the mode of collecting, accounting for and paying public taxes. (1803)