Author: Joyce Martin MurrayPublisher:
ISBN: 9781570881138
Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
Logan County, Kentucky Deed Abstracts 1792-1813
Author: Joyce Martin MurrayPublisher:
ISBN: 9781570881138
Category : Deeds
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
I've Got a Home in Glory Land
Author: Karolyn Smardz FrostPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466806125
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
It was the day before Independence Day, 1831. As his bride, Lucie, was about to be "sold down the river" to the slave markets of New Orleans, young Thornton Blackburn planned a daring—and successful—daylight escape from Louisville. But they were discovered by slave catchers in Michigan and slated to return to Kentucky in chains, until the black community rallied to their cause. The Blackburn Riot of 1833 was the first racial uprising in Detroit history. The couple was spirited across the river to Canada, but their safety proved illusory. In June 1833, Michigan's governor demanded their extradition. The Blackburn case was the first serious legal dispute between Canada and the United States regarding the Underground Railroad. The impassioned defense of the Blackburns by Canada's lieutenant governor set precedents for all future fugitive-slave cases. The Blackburns settled in Toronto and founded the city's first taxi business. But they never forgot the millions who still suffered in slavery. Working with prominent abolitionists, Thornton and Lucie made their home a haven for runaways. The Blackburns died in the 1890s, and their fascinating tale was lost to history. Lost, that is, until a chance archaeological discovery in a downtown Toronto school yard brought the story of Thornton and Lucie Blackburn again to light.
Kentucky Ancestors
Author: The Southern Genealogist's Exchange Quarterly
Author: Bakers of Logan, Christian, Muhlenberg, Livingston, Henderson, Hopkins, Caldwell, Union, Todd, Trigg, Crittenden, Lyon, McLean, and Webster Counties & Jackson Purchase, Kentucky
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Category : Kentucky
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Abstracts of tax, cemetery, census, land, court, vital, and other records and genealogical correspondence concerning the Baker/ Barker/Beaker families of Kentucky. Includes some North Carolina connections.
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