In this Issue

Table of Contents

Introduction: Rethinking Emancipation and Abolition in Kentucky

Kellie Carter Jackson
pp. 1-6
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/khs.2025.a964926
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The Faith Journey of Slaveholder-Turned-Abolitionist, James Gillespie Birney

C. Walker Gollar
pp. 7-47
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/khs.2025.a964914
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“She Has Been Most Loyal to the Highest Good”: Gender and Abolitionism in the Fiction of Mattie Griffith

Holly M. Kent
pp. 49-102
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/khs.2025.a964915
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Fugitive Slaves and “Freedom Capital” in Antebellum Northern Kentucky: One Family’s Journey to Freedom

Nikki M. Taylor
pp. 103-121
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/khs.2025.a964916
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Advertising Agency: The Historical Value of Kentucky’s Enslaved Runaway Advertisements

Timothy Ross Talbott
pp. 123-150
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/khs.2025.a964917
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Cassius Marcellus Clay and the Limits of Antislavery Thought and Action in Kentucky

Anne E. Marshall
pp. 151-165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/khs.2025.a964918
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Hell without Fire: Kentucky’s Anti-Slavery Prisoners

James M. Prichard
pp. 167-194
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/khs.2025.a964919
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The Vice President’s Black Wife: The Untold Life of Julia Chinn by Amrita Chakrabarti Myers (review)

Beverly G. Bond
pp. 195-197
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/khs.2025.a964920
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Undoing Slavery: Bodies, Race, and Rights in the Age of Abolition by Kathleen M. Brown (review)

Felicity M. Turner
pp. 197-200
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/khs.2025.a964921
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A Southern Underground Railroad: Black Georgians and the Promise of Spanish Florida and Indian Country by Paul M. Pressly (review)

Noeleen McIlvenna
pp. 200-202
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/khs.2025.a964922
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The Root and the Branch: Working-Class Reform and Antislavery, 1790–1860 by Sean Griffin (review)

Lucien Holness
pp. 202-204
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/khs.2025.a964923
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Banking on Slavery: Financing Southern Expansion in the Antebellum United States by Sharon Ann Murphy (review)

Calvin Schermerhorn
pp. 204-206
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/khs.2025.a964924
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Sexual Violence and American Slavery: The Making of a Rape Culture in the Antebellum South by Shannon C. Eaves (review)

Elizabeth M. Barnes
pp. 206-208
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/khs.2025.a964925
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The Barber of Natchez Reconsidered: William Johnson and Black Masculinity in the Antebellum South by Timothy R. Buckner (review)

Jeff Forret
pp. 208-210
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/khs.2025.a964966
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