NOTE: THIS WEBSITE IS A WORK IN PROGRESS. RESOURCES AND DATA ARE ADDED DAILY.
IMPORTANT: We are in urgent need of funding to keep this project alive and ensure its future. If you’re enjoying the site and see our vision for the project, please consider contributing to the Melungeon Roots crowdfunding campaign today. It is only with your help that we can continue this work. MORE INFO / DONATE
Thanks so much for your support! – Jes
0
A History of Blacks in Kentucky from Slavery to Segregation, 1760-1891
Resource ID: 4540
Type: non-fiction, book
share:
Some buttons on this page link to external websites. If you visit one of our affiliate sites and make a purchase, I may receive a small commission at no extra cost to you. More info
- UPDATED: 6.29.2025
- Black history, history, populations, regional
- history, slavery, segregation
editor:
n/a
publisher:
date:
2003
ISBN:
9780916968328
pages:
457
notes:
. . .
contents:
description:
A History of Blacks in Kentucky traces the role of blacks from the early exploration and settlement of Kentucky to 1891, when African Americans gained freedom only to be faced with a segregated society. Making extensive use of numerous primary sources such as slave diaries, Freedmen's Bureau records, church minutes, and collections of personal papers, the book tells the stories of individuals, their triumphs and tragedies, and their accomplishments in the face of adversity.
CMOS:
Other Resources
- A History of the United States: The Planting of a Nation in the New World, 1000 – 1660
- Negotiating a Perilous Empowerment: Appalachian Women’s Literacies
- Gibson Family Genealogy: A Melungeon Line
- The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History
- The Secret Token: Myth, Obsession, and the Search for the Lost Colony of Roanoke
- The Portuguese Making of America: Melungeons and Early Settlers of America