Letters offer a glimpse of life in 1850s Lexington - Lexington Herald Leader

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Letters offer a glimpse of life in 1850s Lexington Lexington Herald Leader In the 1850s, a Lexington man named Ferdinand, who had been a slave, wrote to his uncle Rueben in Western Kentucky about the death of Ferdinand's wife, his children's health and his newfound freedom. The correspondence is included in a collection of ...