Английская Википедия:Catharine (Tennessee)
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Catharine (born Шаблон:Circa?) was an enslaved woman of Tennessee in the United States who may have been associated with slave trader and Confederate cavalry commander Nathan Bedford Forrest. Her life is poorly documented, and she could be a propagandistic fiction. She is known primarily from one unsigned anti-Forrest newspaper article that appeared in the wake of the Battle of Fort Pillow,[1] but there are two,[2][3][4] possibly three,[5] other sources that may at least confirm her existence.
Historical records
Per an unsigned item about Nathan Bedford Forrest and his brothers that was credited only to a "Knoxville, E.T." correspondent of the New-York Tribune and published in a number of U.S.-aligned newspapers in 1864:"[1]
During this era of U.S. history, "political enemies often accused one another of miscegenation."[6] Forrest's most recent major biographer, Jack Hurst, described the Knoxville–Tribune report of 1864 as, overall, "inflammatory but in some ways accurate," and specifically in the case of Catharine: "The partisan invective of the brief article might make it dismissable were it not intriguingly stressful of the name 'Catharine' (while Mary Ann's goes unmentioned) and supported by several other Forrest family names and business activities whose accuracy is verifiable."[4]
Hurst also surfaced a record from the Shelby County register, book 16, page 125: Шаблон:Blockquote
The price for mother and son on November 10, 1853, was Шаблон:USD.[3]Шаблон:Efn
There is also a Cath Forrest (Cath with a C, and Forrest with two Rs), mulatto, age 36, listed in the 1870 U.S. census in Memphis, Tennessee, living and/or working in what is likely a boarding house.[2][3] Also resident is a 13-year-old mulatto girl (born Шаблон:Circa) whose name appears to be Narcissa Forrest.[2][3]
A Catherine Forrest also appears twice in the Memphis city directory in the 1870s:[5]
- "Forrest, Catherine, col, r 199 Monroe" in the 1874 Boyle-Chapman directory
- "Forrest, Catherine, col'd, domestic, r 239 Madison" in the 1877 Sholes directory
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