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Digitizing the history of enslaved people in Lexington
Vanessa Holden is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Kentucky with expertise on African American women and slavery in the antebellum South. “Kentucky didn’t secede during the ...
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‘Revolutionary’: Projects uncover Kentucky’s Black history, one digital document at a time
Kentucky’s courthouses and churches held plenty of records about Black people in antebellum Kentucky, “but it was largely inaccessible,” said Dan Gediman, the executive director of Reckoning ...
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Transylvania grad was one of nation’s most-revered novelists
His novel, A Kentucky Cardinal ... The youngest of seven, Allen knew a life of the Antebellum South, as well as the life brought about by the end of the Civil War. He attended Transylvania ...
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Digitizing the history of enslaved people in Lexington
Vanessa Holden is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Kentucky with expertise on African American women and slavery in the antebellum South. “Kentucky didn’t secede during ...