Black liberation in Kentucky : emancipation and freedom, 1862-1884 / Victor B. Howard.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Howard, Victor B., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Kentucky--History--19th century.

African Americans.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Kentucky.

Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).

Kentucky--History--Civil War, 1861-1865.

Kentucky.

Kentucky--Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Edition:

Paperback edition.

Place of Publication:

Lexington, Kentucky : The University Press of Kentucky, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Kentucky occupied an unusual position with regard to slavery during the Civil War as well as after. Since the state never seceded, the emancipation proclamation did not free the majority of Kentucky's slaves; in fact, Kentucky and Delaware were the only two states where legal slavery still existed when the thirteenth amendment was adopted by Congress. Despite its unique position, no historian before has attempted to tell the experience of blacks in the Commonwealth during the Civil War and Reconstruction.Victor B. Howard's Black Liberation in Kentucky fills this void in the history of slavery

Contents:

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Kentucky Responds to War; 2 The Army and the Slave; 3 Emancipation; 4 Military Enrollment; 5 Slaves Go to War; 6 From Soldier to Freedman; 7 The Search for Work; 8 Families in Transition; 9 The Testimony Question; 10 Black Suffrage; 11 Equal Education?; Epilogue; Notes; Manuscript Sources and Government Documents; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780813184784

0813184789

9780813133973

0813133971

9780813150710

081315071X

OCLC:

897141673