Fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky borderland / J. Blaine Hudson.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Hudson, J. Blaine.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Underground Railroad--Kentucky.
• Underground Railroad--Tennessee.
• Underground Railroad--Ohio River Valley.
• Fugitive slaves--Kentucky--History--19th century.
• Fugitive slaves--Tennessee--History--19th century.
• Fugitive slaves--Ohio River Valley--History--19th century.
• Antislavery movements--Kentucky--History--19th century.
• Antislavery movements--Tennessee--History--19th century.
• Antislavery movements--Ohio River Valley--History--19th century.
• Antislavery movements.
• History.
• Fugitive slaves.
• Underground Railroad.
• Ohio River Valley.
• Tennessee.
• Kentucky.

Physical Description:

x, 205 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co., [2002]

Summary:

• Lois A. Ferguson was a teacher at a Japanese-American relocation center in California during World War II; she and her husband endured treacherous dust storms and poor living quarters to provide education to the young Japanese inhabitants. Kay Watson's husband fought in Europe while Kay worked at one of the sites of a secret government project known as the Manhattan Project; she later learned that she might have played a small part in the plan to drop an atomic bomb on Hiroshima.
• The recollections of these two women and 53 others are edited and presented by Pauline Parker, who also endured the war. Many women had life changing experiences during this turbulent time -- Parker has gathered the personal stories of such women as marines and government workers as well as single mothers whose husbands had gone off to fight.

Contents:

• Race and Historiography 5
• Purpose of the Study 7
• Research Method and Standards of Evidence 8
• Chapter II The Borderland 11
• The Great River 12
• The Human Landscape: Kentucky 13
• The Human Landscape: North of Slavery 19
• The Human Landscape: Tennessee and Points South 26
• Chapter III Fugitive Slaves 31
• Slave Escapes: The Kentucky Fugitive Slave Data Base 32
• Fugitive Slaves Before 1850 41
• Fugitive Slaves in the 1850s 47
• Fugitive Slaves During the Civil War 50
• From the Perspectives of Africian Americans 51
• Chapter IV The Anatomy of Slave Escapes 55
• Motivations 55
• Escape Strategies 58
• By Road, River and Rail 65
• Risks 68
• Chapter V Friends of the Fugitive in the Kentucky Borderland 71
• The Underground Road: Assisting Fugitive Slaves before 1850 72
• Harboring 77
• Slave Escapes and Inter-racial Relationships 79
• Coordinated Escapes 80
• The "Quiet Insurrection" of the 1850s 81
• Before the Bar: Friends of the Fugitive in Court 86
• The Free African American Community 91
• Chapter VI The Underground Railroad: Escape Routes, Corridors, Crossing Points and Junctions 97
• Through Kentucky 98
• To Kentucky from Tennessee and Points South 101
• Crossing Points: An Overview 103
• From Kentucky to Illinois 105
• From Kentucky to Indiana 106
• From Kentucky to Ohio 119
• Chapter VII Individuals and Cases of Note 129
• Fugitive: Eliza Harris 129
• Fugitives: Thornton and Lucie Blackburn 130
• Fugitive and Friend of the Fugitive: Henry Bibb 131
• Friends of the Fugitive: Delia Webster and Calvin Fairbank 134
• Fugitive and Friend of the Fugitive: Lewis Hayden 135
• Friend of the Fugitive? Edward James "Patrick" Doyle 136
• Friends of the Fugitive: Shelton Morris and Washington Spradling, Sr. 139
• Fugitive: Rosetta Armstead/Anderson 141
• Fugitive: Margaret Garner 143
• Fugitive: Rachael 147
• Friends of the Fugitive: Charles Bell and Oswell Wright 148
• Friends of the Fugitive: Elijah Anderson and Chapman Harris 150
• Friends of the Fugitive: John Parker and the Rev. John Rankin 152
• Chapter VIII Conclusion: The Desperate and the Brave 155
• Assessment of the Evidence: Fugitive Slaves 155
• Assessment of the Evidence: The Underground Railroad 158
• The Question of Numbers 159
• Directions for Future Research 163
• Legend and Legacy 163
• Appendix I The Kentucky Borderland 167
• I-1. The Ohio River: Its Towns and Tributaries 167
• I-2. 1850 Kentucky Free Black Population 168
• I-3. Kentucky Counties Bordering the Ohio River 168
• I-4. Illinois, Indiana and Ohio Counties Bordering Kentucky 169
• I-5. 1850 Illinois Black Population 169
• I-6. 1850 Indiana Black Population 170
• I-7. 1850 Ohio Black Population 170
• Appendix II Kentucky Underground Railroad Workers 173.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-197) and index.

ISBN:

078641345X

OCLC:

49903443