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Slavery & freedom records (Tennessee overview)

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Estates, schedules, Bureau, and 1870 bridge method.

Tennessee African American research combines estate clusters, 1850–1860 slave schedules, Freedmen’s Bureau, and the 1870 free population bridge. Always fix county and year first.

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