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These harrowing accounts and interviews give a painful, realistic view of the atrocity of slavery and the impact it had on the United States; the first volume of this work, this focuses on slaves in the state of Alabama.

By: Work Projects Administration, Pub. 1938, Reprinted 2015, 271 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-826-9.Carter County was formed in 1796 by the General Assembly of North Carolina. It was created out of the Eastern part of Washington County, an early county originally formed in 1777. The Watauga Settlement was located in present Carter County. At the time of the creation, its eastern boundary was the North Carolina line, its northwestern boundary was Sullivan County, TN., and its northern boundary was Washington County, VA. In these minutes of pleas & quarter sessions, you will find appointments of county officials, appointed administrators, marked public roads, granting of licenses to "ordinaries", taxes being levied, civil actions of a wide variety and persons being tried for offenses against the peace & dignity of the State.

By: W.P.A., Pub. 1934, Reprinted 2018, 256 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-641-X.Montgomety County was created in 1796 from Tennessee County which was created from the state of North Carolina shortly after the Revolutionary War. This is another of the MUCH-NEEDED books on Middle Tennessee to fill in the gaps for families migrating into and through this area on their way westward. Montgomery County was involved in the Walker Line dispute with the state of Kentucky which later they lost and portions of the county were granted to Kentucky. In these minutes of pleas & quarters sessions you will find appointments of county officials, appointed administrators, marked public roads, granting of licenses to "ordinaries", taxes being levied, civil actions of a wide variety and persons being tried for offenses against the peace & dignity of the State.