Monday, March 11, 2013

Kentucky: "Negroes...putting on airs and making themselves free and easy." (1862)

Source: The Polynesian. Honolulu: Saturday, April 5, 1862.

The Frankfort (Kentucky) Yeoman says the negroes in that part of the State north of the Federal lines are putting on airs and making themselves very free and easy. They run off by the scores, taking horses and wagons to help them along, and in some places they parade the streets o'nights. singing and shouting over their deliverance.

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