Robert Renfro

Robert Renfro, known as "Black Bob", was an enslaved-born African American tavern keeper, innkeeper, and entrepreneur prior to 1797 in Nashville, Tennessee. He is generally regarded as Tennessee's first Black entrepreneur and the operator of Nashville's first known Black-owned business, Black Bob's Tavern, which he opened under court license in January 16, 1794 while still enslaved. He was emancipated by a special act of the Tennessee General Assembly on November 10, 1801, and required by that act to take the surname Renfro. After emancipation he operated a House of Entertainment, an inn, and

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