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Slavery Days in Old Kentucky - A True Story of a Father Who Sold His Wife and Four Children, By One of His Children (Paperback)
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Slavery Days in Old Kentucky - A True Story of a Father Who Sold His Wife and Four Children, By One of His Children (Paperback)
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Loot Price R510
Discovery Miles 5 100
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Isaac Johnson was born in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in 1844. His
father, Richard Yeager, was a white farmer and his mother, Jane
Johnson, was an enslaved African from Madagascar. His parents lived
together as husband and wife and had four children, including
Isaac. In 1851, Yeager, unable to face neighbors' criticism, sold
Jane and their children to various new masters and left the area.
Isaac, who had not previously been aware of his enslavement, was
thus abruptly separated from his mother and siblings at the age of
seven. After a succession of owners and two failed escape attempts,
Johnson finally achieved freedom when, during the Civil War, he
fled his master's plantation and found refuge with a Union regiment
marching through Kentucky. After the war he moved to Canada and
began working as a mason and stonecutter, and later to New York.
Published in 1901, Slavery Days in Old Kentucky, was written to
argue against what Johnson saw as a romanticized nostalgia for
slavery.
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