Lawmakers honor 15 enslaved men who built Tennessee Capitol, seek permanent memorial
Tennessee lawmakers for the first time honored the work of 15 enslaved men rented by the State of Tennessee in the 1800s to ...
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Lawmakers honor 15 enslaved men who built Tennessee Capitol, seek permanent memorial
Fifteen enslaved men were rented by the state to work on construction of the Capitol building between 1845 ... the first Black representative to the Tennessee legislature, elected in 1873 to ...