Howard, Victor B. <br/><br/>
Black Liberation in Kentucky  Emancipation and Freedom, 1862-1884. 

 - Lexington :  The University Press of Kentucky,  (c)1983. 
 - 1 online resource (231 pages) 
<br/><br/> Description based upon print version of record. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/>Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Kentucky Responds to War; 2 The Army and the Slave; 3 Emancipation; 4 Military Enrollment; 5 Slaves Go to War; 6 From Soldier to Freedman; 7 The Search for Work; 8 Families in Transition; 9 The Testimony Question; 10 Black Suffrage; 11 Equal Education?; Epilogue; Notes; Manuscript Sources and Government Documents; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; W 
<br/><br/> Kentucky occupied an unusual position with regard to slavery during the Civil War as well as after. Since the state never seceded, the emancipation proclamation did not free the majority of Kentucky's slaves; in fact, Kentucky and Delaware were the only two states where legal slavery still existed when the thirteenth amendment was adopted by Congress. Despite its unique position, no historian before has attempted to tell the experience of blacks in the Commonwealth during the Civil War and Reconstruction.Victor B. Howard's Black Liberation in Kentucky fills this void in the history of slavery. 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780813150710 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>African Americans--History--Kentucky--19th century.<br/>Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877)--Kentucky.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E185  / .B533 1983