ROSE, a WOMAN OF COLOUR: A Slave's Struggle for Freedom in the Courts of Kentucky

by Arnold Taylor

Book Overview

This book is the true story of Rose Gatliff, a slave who used the courts of Kentucky to wrest freedom from those who held her family in bondage. Despite being held in a slave State and despite her rights being judged by white, slaveholding men, she prevailed. Her persistence, determination and intelligence made her, as one witness phrased it, "the best lawyer" her family had. This is also the story of the witnesses for and against Rose, all white,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595506615
• ISBN13: 9780595506613
• Release Date: June 2008
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 148 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.0"