Author: John Winston Coleman (Jr.)
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Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 406

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Author: John Winston Coleman (Jr.)
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Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Ivan Eugene McDougle
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 132

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Author: John Winston Coleman
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ISBN: 9780384095359
Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Marion Brunson Lucas
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 9780916968328
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 458

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"A History of Blacks in Kentucky traces the role of blacks from the early exploration and settlement of Kentucky to 1891, when African Americans gained freedom only to be faced with a segregated society. Making extensive use of numerous primary sources such as slave diaries, Freedmen's Bureau records, church minutes, and collections of personalpapers, the book tells the stories of individuals, their triumphs and tragedies, and their accomplishments in the face of adversity.

Author: Works Progress Administration
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1387358693
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Author: Isaac Johnson
Publisher: Hutchinson
ISBN: 9780096340280
Category : History
Languages : en
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Author: Isaac Johnson
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469641887
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 49

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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: 0813189802
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 137

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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: Marion Brunson Lucas
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 430

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