Cecelia and Fanny : the remarkable friendship between an escaped slave and her former mistress /

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Cecelia was a fifteen-year-old slave when she accompanied her mistress, Frances "Fanny" Thruston Ballard, on a holiday trip to Niagara Falls. During their stay, Cecelia crossed the Niagara River and joined the free black population of Canada. Although documented relationships between freed...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Asher, Brad, 1963-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, 2011.
Subjects:
Larrison, Cecelia.
Ballard, Fanny Thruston.
1800-1899
Enslaved persons > Kentucky > Louisville > Biography.
Slaveholders > Kentucky > Louisville > Biography.
Fugitive slaves > Canada > Biography.
African American women > Kentucky > Louisville > Biography.
Women, White > Kentucky > Louisville > Biography.
Friendship > Case studies.
Propriétaires d'esclaves > Kentucky > Louisville > Biographies.
Esclaves fugitifs > Canada > Biographies.
Noires américaines > Kentucky > Louisville > Biographies.
Blanches > Kentucky > Louisville > Biographies.
Amitié > Études de cas.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Social Scientists & Psychologists.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > United States > Civil War Period (1850-1877)
African American women.
Friendship.
Fugitive slaves.
Race relations.
Slaveholders.
Enslaved persons.
Women, White.
Louisville (Ky.) > Race relations > History > 19th century.
Louisville (Ky.) > Biography.
Canada.
Kentucky > Louisville.
Biographies.
Case studies.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Eight minutes from freedom
  • Fanny : learning to be a slave owner
  • Cecelia : learning about being a slave
  • Fanny : a woman's place
  • Cecelia : a family in freedom
  • Fanny : the Civil War in Louisville
  • Cecelia : a new life in Rochester
  • Fanny : postwar trials
  • Cecelia : back in Louisville
  • Conclusion : the bonds of slavery.

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