Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky : a Narrative by Francis Fedric, Escaped Slave.

Slave Life in Virginia and Kentucky : a Narrative by Francis Fedric, Escaped Slave.

In 1854, faced with the threat of yet another brutal beating, a fifty-year-old slave in Mason County, Kentucky, decided to try again to escape. His first attempt had ended in his near starvation as he hid for nine weeks in a swamp, before hunger compelled him to return to his master. This time the s...

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Main Author: Innes, C. L.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, 2010.
Series:Library of Southern civilization.
Subjects:
Frederick, Francis, > approximately 1805-approximately 1882.
African Americans > England > Biography.
African Americans > Biography.
Plantation life > Kentucky > History > 19th century.
Plantation life > Virginia > History > 19th century.
Enslaved persons > Kentucky > Social conditions > 19th century.
Enslaved persons > Virginia > Social conditions > 19th century.
Fugitive slaves > Canada > Biography.
Enslaved persons > Kentucky > Biography.
Enslaved persons > Virginia > Biography.
African Americans.
Fugitive slaves.
Plantation life.
Enslaved persons.
Enslaved persons > Social conditions.
Canada.
England.
Kentucky.
Virginia.
Biography.
History.

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