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Author : Ivan Eugene McDougle
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)
Download or read book Slavery in Kentucky written by Ivan Eugene McDougle and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marshall Myers
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1467152358
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (671 download)
Download or read book Enslavement in Kentucky written by Marshall Myers and published by Arcadia Publishing. This book was released on 2022-06 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between the time Daniel Boone led his settlers through the Cumberland Gap and the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment, slavery was prominent in the Commonwealth. In several constitutional conventions, founders and lawmakers questioned the legality and appropriateness of the issue. At every possible juncture, wealthy slaveholders defended the institution, while abolitionists fought one another over the question of slavery. As a result of the fighting, the Thirteenth Amendment was not ratified until the 1970s. Author and historian Marshall Myers dives deep into the means both slaveholders and abolitionists used to secure a policy that supported their beliefs.
Author : John Winston Coleman (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (32 download)
Download or read book Slavery Times in Kentucky written by John Winston Coleman (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Isaac Johnson
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (548 download)
Download or read book Slavery Days in Old Kentucky written by Isaac Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-17 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaac Johnson - a former slave. He was a man who escaped the South, fought in the Civil War and found success as a stone mason and writer. In 1897 (published in 1901), he writes his book. The book begins, "So many people have inquired as to the particulars of my slave life and seemingly listened to the same with interest, that I have concluded to give the story in this form." Johnson used proceeds from the book to finance the college education of some of his seven children, one of whom became a chemistry professor at Syracuse University. He also hoped that his long lost siblings might see the book and find him. They never did.
Author : J. Blaine Hudson
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476604223
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)
Download or read book Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky Borderland written by J. Blaine Hudson and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2015-05-07 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between 1783 and 1860, more than 100,000 enslaved African Americans escaped across the border between slave and free territory in search of freedom. Most of these escapes were unaided, but as the American anti-slavery movement became more militant after 1830, assisted escapes became more common. Help came from the Underground Railroad, which still stands as one of the most powerful and sustained multiracial human rights movements in world history. This work examines and interprets the available historical evidence about fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad in Kentucky, the southernmost sections of the free states bordering Kentucky along the Ohio River, and, to a lesser extent, the slave states to the immediate south. Kentucky was central to the Underground Railroad because its northern boundary, the Ohio River, represented a three hundred mile boundary between slavery and nominal freedom. The book examines the landscape of Kentucky and the surrounding states; fugitive slaves before 1850, in the 1850s and during the Civil War; and their motivations and escape strategies and the risks involved with escape. The reasons why people broke law and social convention to befriend fugitive slaves, common escape routes, crossing points through Kentucky from Tennessee and points south, and specific individuals who provided assistance--all are topics covered.
Author : C. L. Innes
Publisher : LSU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780807138052
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (38 download)
Download or read book Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky written by C. L. Innes and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2010-11 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1854, faced with the threat of yet another brutal beating, a fifty-year-old slave in Mason County, Kentucky, decided to try again to escape. His first attempt had ended in his near starvation as he hid for nine weeks in a swamp, before hunger compelled him to return to his master. This time the slave sought the help of a neighbor with abolitionist sympathies, and he joined the hundreds of other fugitive slaves fleeing across the Ohio River and north to Canada on the Underground Railroad. After his arrival in Toronto he discarded his master's surname (Parker), renamed himself Francis Fedric, and married an Englishwoman. In 1857, he traveled with his wife to Great Britain, where he lectured on behalf of the antislavery cause and published two versions of his life story. Born in Virginia circa 1805, Francis Fedric was not unlike thousands of other African Americans who escaped slavery in the southern states and sought refuge in Britain. Many of his fellow ex-slaves also joined the abolitionist lecture circuit and published memoirs to support both the cause and themselves. Addressed to a British audience, these memoirs constitute a distinctive subgenre of the slave narrative, and an essential continuation of the narrative tradition established in England by Olaudah Equiano, Ottobah Cugoano, and Mary Prince. The first of Fedric's two memoirs, Life and Sufferings of Francis Fedric, While in Slavery: An Escaped Slave after 51 Years in Bondage (1859), offers a brief but vivid and dramatic twelve-page description of his escape. Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky; or, Fifty Years of Slavery in the Southern States of America (1863) provides a much more detailed account of life as a slave and of plantation culture in the southern states. Together the two works present a mesmerizing and distinct perspective on slavery in the South. Amazingly, these narratives, among the most interesting of the genre, remained out of print for nearly a hundred and fifty years. Collected here for the first time and meticulously edited by C. L. Innes, Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky: A Narrative by Francis Fedric, Escaped Slave includes a contextual introduction, substantial biographical information on Fedric, and extensive annotations that situate and illuminate his work. Long forgotten and never before published in the United States, Fedric's narratives are certain to take their rightful place alongside the most recognizable accounts in the canon of slave memoirs.
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Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780916968212
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (682 download)
Download or read book A History of Blacks in Kentucky: In pursuit of equality, 1890-1980 written by and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1992-01-01 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " Published by the Kentucky Historical Society & Distributed by the University Press of Kentucky This is the second part of a two-volume study which covers the entire spectrum of the black experience in Kentucky from earliest exploration and settlement to 1980. (Click here for information on the first volume, From Slavery to Segregation, 1760-1891.) Mandated and partially funded by the Kentucky General Assembly in 1978, this pathbreaking work is the most comprehensive consideration of the subject ever undertaken. It fills a long-recognized void in Kentucky history. George C. Wright describes the struggle of blacks in the twentieth century to achieve the promise of political, social, and economic equality. From the rising tide of racism and violence at the turn of the century to the civil rights movement and school integration in later decades, Wright describes the accomplishments, frustrations, and defeats suffered by the race, concluding that even in 1980 only a few blacks had actually achieved the long-sought toal of equality.
Author : Works Progress Administration
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387358693
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (873 download)
Download or read book Kentucky Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States From Interviews with Former Slaves written by Works Progress Administration and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ivan Eugene McDougle
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781019954744
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (547 download)
Download or read book Slavery in Kentucky, 1792-1865 written by Ivan Eugene McDougle and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2023-07-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking study explores the complex history of slavery in one of the border states of the American South. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, including slave narratives, plantation records, and legal documents, McDougle examines the ways in which slavery evolved in Kentucky from its earliest days to the Civil War. Along the way, he exposes the harsh realities of slave life, the resistance and rebellion of enslaved people, and the efforts of abolitionists to bring an end to this inhumane institution. With its rigorous research and engaging prose, Slavery in Kentucky is a compelling and insightful work of history. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Isaac Johnson
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469641887
Total Pages : 49 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Slavery Days in Old Kentucky written by Isaac Johnson and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2018-09-01 with total page 49 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isaac Johnson was born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in 1844. His father, Richard Yeager, was a white farmer and his mother, Jane Johnson, was an enslaved African from Madagascar. His parents lived together as husband and wife and had four children, including Isaac. In 1851, Yeager, unable to face neighbors' criticism, sold Jane and their children to various new masters and left the area. Isaac, who had not previously been aware of his enslavement, was thus abruptly separated from his mother and siblings at the age of seven. After a succession of owners and two failed escape attempts, Johnson finally achieved freedom when, during the Civil War, he fled his master's plantation and found refuge with a Union regiment marching through Kentucky. After the war he moved to Canada and began working as a mason and stonecutter, and later to New York. Published in 1901, Slavery Days in Old Kentucky, was written to argue against what Johnson saw as a romanticized nostalgia for slavery. A DOCSOUTH BOOK. This collaboration between UNC Press and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Library brings classic works from the digital library of Documenting the American South back into print. DocSouth Books uses the latest digital technologies to make these works available in paperback and e-book formats. Each book contains a short summary and is otherwise unaltered from the original publication. DocSouth Books provide affordable and easily accessible editions to a new generation of scholars, students, and general readers.
Author : Lowell H. Harrison
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813157838
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Antislavery Movement in Kentucky written by Lowell H. Harrison and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2014-10-17 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As one of only two states in the nation to still allow slavery by the time of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865, Kentucky's history of slavery runs deep. Based on extensive research, The Antislavery Movement in Kentucky focuses on two main antislavery movements that emerged in Kentucky during the early years of opposition. By 1820, Kentuckians such as Cassius Clay called for the emancipation of slaves -- a gradual end to slavery with compensation to owners. Others, such as Delia Webster, who smuggled three fugitive slaves across the Kentucky border to freedom in Ohio, advocated for abolition -- an immediate and uncompensated end to the institution. Neither movement was successful, yet the tenacious spirit of those who fought for what they believed contributes a proud chapter to Kentucky history.
Author : Isaac Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Slavery Days in Old Kentucky written by Isaac Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jo Spencer
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (465 download)
Download or read book Slavery in Southeastern Kentucky written by Jo Spencer and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Slavery in Southeastern Kentucky: A Buried History, uncovers and substantiates the history of enslavement in nine counties: Breathitt, Clay, Floyd, Harlan, Magoffin, Perry, Pike and Wolfe. Today, the average African American population in these counties is less than 2%. The veil of secrecy and denial regarding slavery in this area lifts, and we begin to see and know the slaves who were held in bondage until the Civil War emancipated them.
Author : Ivan E. McDougle
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780265436493
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (364 download)
Download or read book Slavery in Kentucky, 1792-1865 (Classic Reprint) written by Ivan E. McDougle and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Slavery in Kentucky, 1792-1865 The chapter on the social status of the slave considers the conditions of slave life that were more or less peculiar to Kentucky. There has often been made the statement, that in Kentucky Negro servitude was generally on a higher plane than in the States to the south and the treat ment of slaves was much more humane. Some light has been thrown on these questions. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Isaac Johnson
Publisher : Hutchinson
ISBN 13 : 9780096340280
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Slavery Days in Old Kentucky written by Isaac Johnson and published by Hutchinson. This book was released on 1994-07-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth D. Leonard
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813176689
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Slaves, Slaveholders, and a Kentucky Community's Struggle Toward Freedom written by Elizabeth D. Leonard and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2019-02-15 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Countless lives were transformed by the war that split the nation, and many stories are yet to be revealed about how the Civil War and the Reconstruction era affected Kentuckians. One such narrative is that of Sandy Holt, who, in the summer of 1864, joined tens of thousands of former slaves and enlisted in the United States Colored Troops. He put his life on the line to secure the Union's survival and the end of slavery. Hundreds of miles away in a federal office, Sandy Holt's former owner, Joseph Holt, worked to achieve the same goals. No one could have predicted before the Civil War that these two very different but interconnected Kentuckians would be crucial participants in the Union war effort. Joseph Holt's radical transformation and the contributions of black Kentuckians in the United States Colored Troops have long been underestimated. In Slaves, Slaveholders, and a Kentucky Community's Struggle toward Freedom, author Elizabeth D. Leonard examines a community of black and white Kentuckians whose lives were intertwined throughout the Civil War era. Bringing new insights into the life and legacy of Breckinridge County native Joseph Holt, Leonard exposes the origins of Holt's evolution from slave owner to member of Lincoln's War Department, where he became a powerful advocate for the abolition of slavery and the enlistment of former bondsmen. Digging deep into Holt's past, Leonard explores the lives of Holt's extended family members and also traces the experiences and efforts of Sandy Holt and other slaves-turned-soldiers from Breckinridge County and its periphery. Many ran from bondage to fight for freedom in the Union army and returned, hoping to claim the promises of Emancipation. The interwoven stories of Joseph and Sandy Holt, and their shared Kentucky community during and after the war, show how a small corner of this border state experienced one of the most defining conflicts in American history.
Author : Susanna Delfino
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 081315488X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Bonds of Womanhood written by Susanna Delfino and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Class, race, and gender collide in this insightful examination of the life of Susanna (Susan) Preston Shelby Grigsby (1830–1891)—a white plantation mistress and slaveholder who struggled to participate in the economic modernization of antebellum Kentucky. Drawing on Grigsby's correspondence, author Susanna Delfino uses Grigsby's story to explore the complex cultural and social issues at play in the state's economy before, during, and after the Civil War. Delfino demonstrates that Grigsby engaged in certain kinds of antislavery activism, such as hiring white servants as a way of conveying her support for free labor and avoiding ever selling a slave. Despite her beliefs, however, Grigsby failed to hold to her moral compass when faced with her husband's patriarchal authority or when she experienced serious economic trouble. This compelling study not only illuminates how white women participated in the South's nineteenth-century economy, but also offers new perspectives on their complicity in slavery.
