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Researching Sunnyside: historian outlines named enslaved families and records gaps
Summary
Dr. Tara Mitchell Mielnick presented archival research on the Sunnyside property in Nashville, reading names from Jesse Bentons 1843 will and property transfers and discussing discrepancies with census counts and later family records.
Dr. Tara Mitchell Mielnick presented new-and-continuing research into the families enslaved at Sunnyside in Nashville, using wills, property transfers and census records to reconstruct family relationships and life trajectories.
Mielnick read names recorded in Jesse Bentons 1843 will and described Thomas Hart Bentons 1853 property transfer that listed enslaved people by name. "The 1843 will lists 20…
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