Tracing the Harts: From Frontier to Urban Servitude

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While Dolly spent her life of over 80 years enslaved to the Callaway family, her son Frederick Hart experienced a labyrinthine journey of enslavement to several interrelated families of prominent early Kentucky settlers.

Introducing: Tracing the Harts

Frederick Hart 1850 Federal Census

Liberty Hall welcomes guest writer Rachel Grimes for a series of blog posts entitled Tracing the Harts!

Education Station: Our Lost Interview

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In 1860, Mason Brown enslaved about 31 people, and one was a little girl around five years old. Recently, we’ve discovered that her name was likely Amanda Preston née Nichols.

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