The Nashville Enslaved and Free People of Color Database, 1780-1865

The Nashville Enslaved and Free People of Color Database (NEFPCD) contains information regarding the movements of more than 14,700 Black people and their enslavers in Nashville and Davidson County, Tennessee before Emancipation. Information for this database was compiled using the information found in a total of seventeen Davidson County record books containing wills, inventories, and other probate records dating between 1780 and 1865, all of which are housed at the Metropolitan Government Archives of Nashville-Davidson County.