Visitors to Booker T. Washington National Monument can step back in time to experience what is was like for Washington as a slave on the Burrough family plantation in Franklin County. But while they ...
The religious hymn "This Little Light of Mine" has often been referred to as having originated in the era of American slavery. For instance, on Sept. 26, 1998, the Orlando Sentinel published that the ...
"My Old Kentucky Home: The astonishing life and reckoning of an iconic American song," by Emily Bingham ...
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Back in Time: Renowned Frederick Douglass reenactor wows crowd at historic courthouse in Allentown
Into the Allentown courtroom where abolitionist Frederick Douglass spoke to a capacity crowd 155 years ago stepped his ...
Minnie “Gracie” Gadson claps her hands and stomps her feet against the floorboards, lifting her voice in a song passed down from her enslaved ancestors who were forced to work the cotton and rice ...
In the pandemic spring of 2020, with most of the state shuttered, musician Ben Sollee sat alone in Churchill’s Downs infield with his signature cello and played “My Old Kentucky Home.” The subsequent ...
In her carefully researched and beautifully written new book, historian Emily Bingham examines American slavery and its after-effects in the context of Stephen Foster’s “My Old Kentucky Home," a song ...
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