Since its founding, Nashville has been a center of black urban culture in the Upper South. Blacks—slave and free—made up 20 percent of Fort Nashborough’s settlers in 1779. From these early years throu
Interpreting Colonist Office and church documents, Johnson (history, U. of Miami-Coral Gables) traces how the Bahamas took a higher road in race relations in the British West Indian colonies due to a
