Freedmen's Bureau Online
"Brother Captain" - The Rev. Peter Duerett/Durrett
William Wells Brown, 1815-1884
Rev. London Ferrill, Pastor of the First Baptist Church
Rev. Elisha W. Greene
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Lewis Hayden (1811 - 1889)
Lyman T. Johnson
Rev. Elijah P. Marrs
Camp Nelson
Nicodemus, Kansas. In September 1877, W.R. Hill and Reverend M.M. Bell enrolled nearly three hundred freedmen from the vicinity of Lexington, Kentucky for settlement in Nicodemus, Kansas. On September 17, the Lexington, Kentucky, group arrived in Nicodemus. This date is still celebrated as the founding of the Nicodemus colony
in Graham County, Kansas. See also Colored Emigrants to Kansas.
Kentucky African American Griots
Library of Congress: African-American Mosaic
1860 Census: slaves 100 years old or more
Christine' African American Genealogy Website
Documenting the American South
Prologue Magazine: Federal Records & African American History
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