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Slavery and freedom in the Bluegrass State : revisiting My Old Kentucky Home /

"Stephen Foster's 'My Old Kentucky Home' has been designated as the official state song and performed at the Kentucky Derby for decades. In light of the ongoing social justice movement to end racial inequality, many have questioned whether the song should be played at public even...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Smith, Gerald L., 1959- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lexington, Kentucky : University Press of Kentucky, [2023]
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.