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Author Asher, Brad, 1963-

Title Cecelia and Fanny : the remarkable friendship between an escaped slave and her former mistress / Brad Asher.

Publication Info. Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, [2011]
©2011

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Location Call No. Status
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  305.8009 ASHER    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  305.8 ASH    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  306.8009769 AS    Check Shelf
Description xi, 227 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-221) and index.
Contents Eight minutes from freedom -- Fanny : learning to be a slave owner -- Cecelia : learning about being a slave -- Fanny : a woman's place -- Cecelia : a family in freedom -- Fanny : the Civil War in Louisville -- Cecelia : a new life in Rochester -- Fanny : postwar trials -- Cecelia : back in Louisville -- Conclusion : the bonds of slavery.
Subject Larrison, Cecelia.
Slaveholders -- Kentucky -- Louisville -- Biography.
Louisville (Ky.) -- Biography.
Enslaved persons -- Kentucky -- Louisville -- Biography.
Friendship -- Case studies.
Local Subject Enslavers -- Kentucky -- Louisville -- Biography.
Subject Ballard, Fanny Thruston.
Fugitive slaves -- Canada -- Biography.
African American women -- Kentucky -- Louisville -- Biography.
Women, White -- Kentucky -- Louisville -- Biography.
Louisville (Ky.) -- Race relations -- History -- 19th century.
ISBN 9780813134147 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
0813134145 (hardcover : acid-free paper)
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