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Free Frank : a Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Lexington : The University Press of Kentucky, [(c)1983.]Description: 1 online resource (238 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780813148519
  • 0813148510
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • F460.4
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Contents:
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. A Slave Who Would Be Free; 2. The Formative Years; 3. ""For a Valuable Consideration""; 4. Speculation in Freedom; 5. Black Pathfinders on the Illinois Frontier; 6. Land Acquisitions and New Philadelphia's Origin; 7. The Development of New Philadelphia; 8. The Achievement of a Dream; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliographic Note; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.
Summary: The story of Free Frank is not only a testament to human courage and resourcefulness but affords new insight into the American frontier. Born a slave in the South Carolina piedmont in 1777, Frank died a free man in 1854 in a town he had founded in western Illinois. His accomplishments, creditable for any frontiersman, were for a black man extraordinary. We first learn details of Frank's life when in 1795 his owner moved to Pulaski County, Kentucky. We know that he married Lucy, a slave on a neighboring farm, in 1799. Later he was allowed to hire out his time, and when his owner moved to Tenness.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. A Slave Who Would Be Free; 2. The Formative Years; 3. ""For a Valuable Consideration""; 4. Speculation in Freedom; 5. Black Pathfinders on the Illinois Frontier; 6. Land Acquisitions and New Philadelphia's Origin; 7. The Development of New Philadelphia; 8. The Achievement of a Dream; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliographic Note; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.

The story of Free Frank is not only a testament to human courage and resourcefulness but affords new insight into the American frontier. Born a slave in the South Carolina piedmont in 1777, Frank died a free man in 1854 in a town he had founded in western Illinois. His accomplishments, creditable for any frontiersman, were for a black man extraordinary. We first learn details of Frank's life when in 1795 his owner moved to Pulaski County, Kentucky. We know that he married Lucy, a slave on a neighboring farm, in 1799. Later he was allowed to hire out his time, and when his owner moved to Tenness.

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