The rise of Memphis as a center for cotton and the slave trade

Editor's note: This, the fourth in a series of columns about topics currently slated to be deleted from Tennessee's eighth-grade social studies sta...

May 16, 2023
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Editor's note: This, the fourth in a series of columns about topics currently slated to be deleted from Tennessee's eighth-grade social studies standards, concerns 'the founding of Memphis as center for cotton and the slave trade.' Clinical Trial Saves Jellybean New exhibit explores pandemic memories through archives Final Four Send Off A few years after the War of 1812, the U.S. government acquired present-day West Tennessee from the Chickasaw Nation. Andrew Jackson represented the U.

Bill Carey