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Record Nr.

UNINA9910459630403321

Autore

Howard Victor B.

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©1983

ISBN

0-8131-8478-9

0-8131-3397-1

0-8131-5071-X

Edizione

[Paperback edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (231 p.)

Disciplina

976.9/00496073

Soggetti

African Americans - Kentucky - History - 19th century

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

Electronic books.

Kentucky History Civil War, 1861-1865

Kentucky Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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