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Carving Canaan From Egypt’S Land: Free People Of Color In Kentucky’S Ohio River Valley, 1795-1860, Brandon Wilson
Carving Canaan From Egypt’S Land: Free People Of Color In Kentucky’S Ohio River Valley, 1795-1860, Brandon Wilson
Theses and Dissertations--History
Over the course of the nineteenth century, Southerners of color flocked to northern free soil by the droves. Seeking refuge from a slaveholding society intent on subordinating those of African descent, many established new homes in Ohio, Indiana, Michigan and places north. Many others, however, carved their own lands of freedom within the slaveholding South. This study explores the free Southerners of color who maintained communities in Kentucky’s borderland, occupying a purgatorial position between freedom and slavery. Maneuvering the anti-black laws and sentiments of their society, the individuals in this study remained rooted in a slaveholding society, despite relative proximity …