Bamman, Gale Williams. “African Americans Impressed for Service on the Nashville and North Western Railroad, October 1863.” National Genealogical Society Quarterly 80:3 (September 1992). Call # CS42.N4 (2nd floor open shelf).
Bowden, Martha Burden. Mountain of Dreams. Sevierville, Tenn.: Nandel Publishing, 1988. Call # CT274.B86B68 1998. Dockery and Burden families in Sevier County.
Brasfield, Curtis. "'To My Daughter and the Heirs of her Body': Slave Passages as Illustrated by the Latham-Smithwick Family." National Genealogical Society Quarterly 81:4 (December 1993). Call # CS42.N4 (2nd floor open shelf).
Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands. Records of the Assistant Commissioner for Tennessee. Call #: Microfilm 720. Apprenticeships on reel 20. Labor contracts arranged by county on reels 20-24 as follows: Dyer (20), Fayette-Hardman (21), Hardman-Madison (22), Robertson-Shelby (23), and Shelby-Wilson (24).
Church, Annette E. and Roberta Church. The Robert R. Churches of Memphis: A Father and Son Who Achieved in Spite of Race.A.E. Church, 1974. Call # F444.M5C482.
Collins, Alvin. "The Descent of a Tennessee Slave from John Plantagenet." Patricia Liddell Researchers News Journal 2:3 (Summer 1995). Call #: fCS1.P38. Descent from Lilburn Jackson, Robertson County.
Craighead, Sandra G. “Abstracts from The Colored Tennessean 1864-1867: Want Ads for Lost Relatives.” JAAHGS 12:3/4 (Fall/Winter, 1991). Call # CS1.A37 (2nd floor open shelf).
-----. "Index and Analysis of the Register of Colored Marriages Performed at the Freedmen's Bureau in Trenton (Gibson County) Tennessee 1865-1866." Patricia Liddell Researchers News Journal 2:2 (Spring 1995). Call #: fCS1.P38
Crawford, Charles W. (editor). Nineteenth Century Memphis Families of Color 1850-1900.Memphis, Tenn.: Church-Walter, 1987. Call # F444.M59 N43 1987.
Freedmen's Bureau Online: Tennessee (Web site). This site contains a number of indexes and transcriptions of documents from the Freedmen's Bureau records.
Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Deposit Ledger Indexes. Call #: Microfilm 710. Indexes for Memphis and Nashville on reel 5.
Freedmen’s Savings and Trust Signature Books. Call #: Microfilm 709. Records for Memphis on reel 24 and those for Nashville on reel 25. These records are indexed by Freedman's Bank Records. Call # CD-ROM E185.6 F844 2000. (Ask at Genealogy Desk for this item.)
Hamilton, Green Polonius. The Bright Side of Memphis: A Compendium of Information Concerning the Colored People of Memphis, Tennessee….Memphis: Burke’s Book Store, (1978?). Reprint of 1908 edition. Call # F444.M5H21978.
Marsh, Helen C. and Timothy Marsh (editors). 1850 Mortality Schedule of Tennessee. Shelbyville, Tennessee: Marsh, 1982. Call # F435.M378 (2nd floor open shelf).
Memphis Riots and Massacres. House of Representatives Report No. 101 (39th Congress, 1st Session). Call #: J5882.92. Special Congressional report on the anti-black riots which took place in Memphis in May 1866. Includes extensive testimony and affidavits of many Memphis African Americans, revealing details concerning not only the riots but also information on their families and personal lives. Indexing for witnesses and affiants.
Sistler, Byron and Barbara Sistler. Tennessee Mortality Schedules. Nashville: Sistler, 1984. Call # F435.T45 (2nd floor census index shelves). A master index to the 1850, 1860 and 1880 schedules.
Stampp, Kenneth (editor). Records of Ante-Bellum Southern Plantations. Call: Microfilm 708. See entry for this title on page six. Records for Andersons of Haywood County on reel I.2.20; for Hodges family (Jefferson County) on reel H.25.
Tennessee Mortality Schedules 1850-1880. Call #: Microfilm 741. See computer catalog for reel descriptions.