Slave life in Virginia and Kentucky [electronic resource] : a narrative by Francis Fedric, escaped slave / edited, with an introduction and notes, by C.L. Innes.
Frederick, Francis, approximately 1805-approximately 1882.; Innes, Catherine Lynette.
2010
E444.F85 A3 2010eb
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Title Slave life in Virginia and Kentucky [electronic resource] : a narrative by Francis Fedric, escaped slave / edited, with an introduction and notes, by C.L. Innes.
Author Frederick, Francis, approximately 1805-approximately 1882.
ISBN 9780807138052 (electronic bk.)
9780807136836
0807136832
9780807136843 (pbk.)
0807136840 (pbk.)
Imprint Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, c2010.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xl, 124 p.)
Call Number E444.F85 A3 2010eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 975.5/03092 B
Summary 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 slave sought the help of a neighbor with abolitionist sympathies, and he joined the hundreds of other fugitive slaves fleeing across the Ohio River and north to Canada on the Underground Railroad. After his arrival in Toronto he discarded his master's surname (Parker), renamed himself Francis Fedric.
Note Description based on print version record.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
Access Note Access limited to authorized users.
Added Author Innes, Catherine Lynette.
Series Library of Southern civilization.
Available in Other Form Slave life in Virginia and Kentucky.
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Introduction: Francis Fedric's story : historical and cultural contexts
Slave life in Virginia and Kentucky
Appendix: Life and sufferings of Francis Fedric, while in slavery.

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