The First Free Spot of Ground in Kentucky
Author | : Patricia Ann Schechter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : African Americans |
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Author | : Patricia Ann Schechter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 1986 |
Genre | : African Americans |
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Author | : Amy Murrell Taylor |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2018-10-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469643634 |
The Civil War was just days old when the first enslaved men, women, and children began fleeing their plantations to seek refuge inside the lines of the Union army as it moved deep into the heart of the Confederacy. In the years that followed, hundreds of thousands more followed in a mass exodus from slavery that would destroy the system once and for all. Drawing on an extraordinary survey of slave refugee camps throughout the country, Embattled Freedom reveals as never before the everyday experiences of these refugees from slavery as they made their way through the vast landscape of army-supervised camps that emerged during the war. Amy Murrell Taylor vividly reconstructs the human world of wartime emancipation, taking readers inside military-issued tents and makeshift towns, through commissary warehouses and active combat, and into the realities of individuals and families struggling to survive physically as well as spiritually. Narrating their journeys in and out of the confines of the camps, Taylor shows in often gripping detail how the most basic necessities of life were elemental to a former slave's quest for freedom and full citizenship. The stories of individuals--storekeepers, a laundress, and a minister among them--anchor this ambitious and wide-ranging history and demonstrate with new clarity how contingent the slaves' pursuit of freedom was on the rhythms and culture of military life. Taylor brings new insight into the enormous risks taken by formerly enslaved people to find freedom in the midst of the nation's most destructive war.
Author | : Richard D. Sears |
Publisher | : University Press of Kentucky |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2014-07-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0813149525 |
Camp Nelson, Kentucky, was designed in 1863 as a military supply depot for the Union Army. Later it became one of the country's most important recruiting stations and training camps for black soldiers and Kentucky's chief center for issuing emancipation papers to former slaves. Richard D. Sears tells the story of the rise and fall of the camp through the shifting perspective of a changing cast of characters -- teachers, civilians, missionaries such as the Reverend John G. Fee, and fleeing slaves and enlisted blacks who describe their pitiless treatment at the hands of slave owners and Confederate sympathizers. Sears fully documents the story of Camp Nelson through carefully selected military orders, letters, newspaper articles, and other correspondence, most inaccessible until now. His introduction provides a historical overview, and textual notes identify individuals and detail the course of events.
Author | : James Rood Robertson |
Publisher | : Genealogical Publishing Com |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 2009-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780806315539 |
This work contains a collection of legislative petitions presented to the General Assembly of Virginia by residents of Kentucky County when it was a part of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The topics that make up the subject matter of the petitions may be summed as follows: The system of landholding, the establishment of courts, the organization of a militia, the organization of the community into counties and towns, the perfecting of a medium of exchange, the inspection of tobacco, the foundation of an educational system, the status of slavery in the western country, and the movement toward separation from Virginia. The list of names attached to the petitions--here printed separately and in alphabetical order--is of a paramount interest to the genealogist as it embodies the names of approximately 5,000 of Kentucky's earliest settlers. Many of these are names that will be met with in no other source, since they occur, for the most part, prior to the keeping of public records. Altogether, the names on the petitions appear to be representative of the ethnic composition of the pioneer population of Kentucky.
Author | : William Henry Perrin |
Publisher | : Dalcassian Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 822 |
Release | : 1882-01-01 |
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Author | : John Filson |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 1975 |
Genre | : Indians of North America |
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Author | : Shawnie Kelley |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2024-09-03 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1493084852 |
Everything you need to know about the nation's fourteenth largest city. Whether you plan to pursue an education, start a business or a job, or raise a family in Columbus, this guide helps you to travel deeper into the rapidly growing Capital City of Ohio.
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Total Pages | : 440 |
Release | : 1906 |
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Author | : J. Blaine Hudson |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2006-03-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0786424591 |
Fugitive slaves were reported in the American colonies as early as the 1640s, and escapes escalated with the growth of slavery over the next two hundred years. As the number of fugitives rose, the Southern states pressed for harsher legislation that they thought would prevent escapes. The Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 criminalized any assistance, active or passive, to a runaway slave--yet it only encouraged the behavior it sought to prevent. Friends of the fugitive, whose previous assistance to runaways had been somewhat haphazard, increased their efforts at organization. By the onset of the Civil War in 1861, the Underground Railroad included members, defined stops, set escape routes and a code language. From the abolitionist movement to the Zionville Baptist Missionary Church, this encyclopedia focuses on the people, ideas, events and places associated with the interrelated histories of fugitive slaves, the African American struggle for equality and the American antislavery movement. Information is drawn from primary sources such as public records, document collections, slave autobiographies and antebellum newspapers. Entries contain pointers to related entries and suggestions for further research. Appendices include information such as a geographical listing of selected friends of the fugitive, noted Underground Railroad sites administered by the National Parks Service, a bibliography of slave autobiographies and selected Underground Railroad songs. A chronology of slavery and the Underground Railroad is also included.
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Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 1977 |
Genre | : Fishing |
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