Ante-bellum Kentucky: A Social History, 1800-1860 (Annals of America)

By Francis Garvin Davenport

The social and intellectual history of Kentucky during the dramatic first sixty years of the nineteenth century is narrated, based upon careful research among newspapers, public documents, and personal papers. The daily life of common man as well as that of the aristocracy is pictured along with the growth of education, the development of penal institutions, the story of science and medicine, and the literature and music of ante-bellum Kentucky.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313241139
• ISBN13: 9780313241130
• Release Date: September 1983
• Publisher: Praeger
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.