A. The policy of North Carolina 153 B. The policy of Tennessee in 1831 153 C. Changes in the policy from 1831 to 1865 153-160 II. System of Registration of Free Negroes 161-162 III. Protection of Free Negroes 162 IV. Suffrage for Free Negroes 162-173 A. In North Carolina 162-164 B. In the Convention of 1796 164-167 C. From 1796 to 1834 167-168 D. Its abolition by the Convention of 1834 168-173 V. Limitations upon the freedom of free negroes 173 VI. The Status of the Free Negro 174-175 VII. Abolition 176-198 I. Private Abolition 176-180 A. Methods 176-179 (1) By Deed. (2) By Will. (3) By Bill of Sale. (4) By Implication. (5) By Effect of Foreign Laws. B. Extent of Emancipation in Tennessee 179-180 II. Anti-slavery Leaders 180-185 III. Abolition Literature 185-187 IV. Petitions to the Legislature for Abolition 187-189 V. Abolition in the Convention of 1834 189-195 VI. Abolition Sentiment after 1834 195-198 VIII. Conclusions 199-202 IX. Bibliography 202-209 X. Appendices 209-213 A. Anti-Slavery Societies of Tennessee 209 B. Tennessee Colonization Society 209 C. Anti-Slavery Leaders in Tennessee 210 D. List of Emigrants 210-211 E. Vice-President of American Colonization Society from Tennessee 211 F. Comparative List of Manumission Societies and Members in the United States 211 G. Slave and Free Negro Population in Tennessee 212 H. Comparative Value of Land and Slaves in the Three Divisions of Tennessee, 1859 212 I. Approximate Value of Property, Slaves, Land, and Cotton in Tennessee, 1859 212