Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky; or, fifty years of slavery in the Southern States of America. With preface, by C. Lee
Title | Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky; or, fifty years of slavery in the Southern States of America. With preface, by C. Lee PDF eBook |
Author | Francis FEDRIC |
Publisher | |
Pages | 138 |
Release | 1863 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky
Title | Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Fedric |
Publisher | |
Pages | 115 |
Release | 1863 |
Genre | Slaves |
ISBN |
Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky
Title | Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky PDF eBook |
Author | C. L. Innes |
Publisher | LSU Press |
Pages | 165 |
Release | 2010-11 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0807138053 |
In 1854, faced with the threat of yet another brutal beating, a fifty-year-old slave in Mason County, Kentucky, decided to try to escape. He joined the hundreds of other fugitive slaves fleeing across the Ohio River and north to Canada on the Underground Railroad. After his arrival in Toronto he discarded his master's surname (Parker), renamed himself Francis Fedric, and married an Englishwoman. In 1857, he traveled with his wife to Great Britain, where he lectured on behalf of the antislavery cause and published two versions of his life story. Together the two works present a mesmerizing and distinct perspective on slavery in the South. Long forgotten and never before published in the United States, Fedric's narratives, collected here for the first time, are certain to take their rightful place alongside the most recognizable accounts in the canon of slave memoirs.
Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky;
Title | Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky; PDF eBook |
Author | Francis Fedric |
Publisher | CreateSpace |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 2006-10-13 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 9781456309541 |
Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky;: or, Fifty Years of Slavery in the Southern States of America
Slavery in Kentucky
Title | Slavery in Kentucky PDF eBook |
Author | Ivan Eugene McDougle |
Publisher | |
Pages | 132 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | |
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Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery
Title | Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Goings |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 178 |
Release | 2012-03-05 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0813932408 |
Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery tells of an extraordinary life in and out of slavery in the United States and Canada. Born Elijah Turner in the Virginia Tidewater, circa 1810, the author eventually procured freedom papers from a man he resembled and took the man’s name, Henry Goings. His life story takes us on an epic journey, traveling from his Virginia birthplace through the cotton kingdom of the Lower South, and upon his escape from slavery, through Tennessee and Kentucky, then on to the Great Lakes region of the North and to Canada. His Rambles show that slaves were found not only in fields but also on the nation’s roads and rivers, perpetually in motion in massive coffles or as solitary runaways. A freedom narrative as well as a slave narrative, this compact yet detailed book illustrates many important developments in antebellum America, such as the large-scale forced migration of enslaved people from long-established slave societies in the eastern United States to new settlements on the cotton frontier, the political-economic processes that framed that migration, and the accompanying human anguish. Goings’s life and reflections serve as important primary documents of African American life and of American national expansion, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. This edition features an informative and insightful introduction by Calvin Schermerhorn.
Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery
Title | Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Goings |
Publisher | University of Virginia Press |
Pages | 177 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0813932386 |
Rambles of a Runaway from Southern Slavery tells of an extraordinary life in and out of slavery in the United States and Canada. Born Elijah Turner in the Virginia Tidewater, circa 1810, the author eventually procured freedom papers from a man he resembled and took the man’s name, Henry Goings. His life story takes us on an epic journey, traveling from his Virginia birthplace through the cotton kingdom of the Lower South, and upon his escape from slavery, through Tennessee and Kentucky, then on to the Great Lakes region of the North and to Canada. His Rambles show that slaves were found not only in fields but also on the nation’s roads and rivers, perpetually in motion in massive coffles or as solitary runaways. A freedom narrative as well as a slave narrative, this compact yet detailed book illustrates many important developments in antebellum America, such as the large-scale forced migration of enslaved people from long-established slave societies in the eastern United States to new settlements on the cotton frontier, the political-economic processes that framed that migration, and the accompanying human anguish. Goings’s life and reflections serve as important primary documents of African American life and of American national expansion, the Civil War, and Reconstruction. This edition features an informative and insightful introduction by Calvin Schermerhorn.