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