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Slavery and freedom in the Bluegrass State : revisiting My Old Kentucky Home / edited by Gerald L. Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Foster, Stephen Collins, 1826-1864. My old Kentucky home.
- Foster, Stephen Collins.
- African Americans--Kentucky--History.
- African Americans.
- Enslaved persons--Kentucky--History.
- Enslaved persons.
- Slavery--Kentucky--History.
- Slavery.
- African American women--Kentucky--History.
- African American women.
- Kentucky--Race relations--History.
- Kentucky.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2023]
- Contents:
- 149 North Broadway: slave incarceration at the foundation of Kentucky finance / Brandon R. Wilson
- Race matters in utopia: the Shakers and slavery at Pleasant Hill / Jacob A. Glover
- "This priceless jewell-liberty": the Doyle conspiracy of 1848 / James M. Prichard
- Necessary violence: African American self-preservation, violence, and survival in Civil War-era Kentucky / Charles R. Welsko
- Unfinished freedom: the legal history of Reconstruction in Kentucky / Giuliana Perrone
- William J. Simmons and the Kentucky Normal and Theological Institute / Erin Wiggins Gilliam
- "Very strong colored women": Black women's uplift, activism, and contributions to the Rosenwald Rural School-Building Program in Kentucky / Le Datta Denise Grimes
- "Home ain't always where the heart is": African American women, confinement, and domestic violence in the Gilded Age Bluegrass / Charlene J. Fletcher
- The "live issue" of Black Women voters in Kentucky / Melanie Beals Goan
- "Give 'us' something to yell for!": athletics and the Black campus movement at the University of Kentucky, 1965-1969 / Gerald L. Smith
- Archer Alexander and freedom's memorial / Alicestyne Turley.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780813196169 (electronic bk.)
- 0813196167 (electronic bk.)
- Publisher Number:
- 40031529084
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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