database management – African American History, Culture & Digital Humanities https://aadhum.umd.edu Tue, 07 May 2019 20:19:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.5.1 Standing Together Across Time and Space: Black Social Networks in Late Nineteenth Century Tennessee https://aadhum.umd.edu/2019/06/maxson-standing-together/ https://aadhum.umd.edu/2019/06/maxson-standing-together/#comments Mon, 10 Jun 2019 16:00:28 +0000 https://aadhum.umd.edu/?p=2930 On October 25, 1865, Henrietta Joyce and Elisha Helms stood before a clerk of the court of Davidson County, Tennessee, to confirm Henrietta’s marriage to her late husband, John Joyce. They appeared before the court in Henrietta’s effort to secure a Civil War widow’s pension based on her husband’s military service in the United

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