The Buzzel About Kentuck: Settling the Promised Land

by Craig Thompson Friend (Editor)

Overview

Touted as an American Eden during the colonial era, Kentucky provides one of the most dramatic social histories of early America.

In this collection, ten contributors trace the evolution of Kentucky from First West to Early Republic. Here are the stories of its remarkable settlers and inhabitants: Indians, African Americans, working-class men, tenants and farmers. The world that this diverse group of people made was both a society uniquely Kentuckian and a microcosm of the American pageant unfolding during these years.

An unusual blend of social, economic, political, cultural, and religious history, this volume goes a long way toward answering the question posed by Virginia clergyman in 1775: "What a buzzel is this amongst people about Kentuck?"

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780813187464
Publisher:	University Press of Kentucky
Publication date:	11/21/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	264
File size:	2 MB
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Craig Thompson Friend is the author of Kentucke's Frontiers and Along the Maysville Road: The Early Republic in the Trans-Appalachian West, and coauthor of A New History of Kentucky, 2nd edition. He is professor of history at North Carolina State University.

Craig Thompson Friend is the author of Kentucke’s Frontiers and Along the Maysville Road: The Early Republic in the Trans-Appalachian West, and coauthor of A New History of Kentucky, 2nd edition. He is professor of history at North Carolina State University.

Editorial Reviews

Touted as an American Eden during the colonial era, Kentucky provides one of the most dramatic social histories of early America. In this collection, 10 contributors trace the evolution of Kentucky from First West to Early Republic. They discuss relations among and between the state's settlers and inhabitants, including Indians, African Americans, working-class women, planters, and struggling farmers. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknew.com)

Booknews

"Not only exposes fallacies and gaps in previous research but also presents new findings and draws revisionist conclusions."—Arkansas Review

From the Publisher

"No other state in the Early American Republic is currently blessed with such a large group of thoughtful and careful historians as Kentucky. It makes a strong case for the proposition that the history of Kentucky is central to any understanding of the history of North America in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries."—Andrew Cayton

Andrew Cayton

"Thought-provoking.... A collection of fine-grained snapshots of the early social history of the first West and of the first South to the west."—Journal of Southern History

Journal of Southern History

"In the Buzzel About Kentuck, 10 historians write about the dangers, hardships and uncertainties that befell those people who migrated to Kentucky, beginning in the 1770s."—Kentucky Monthly

Kentucky Monthly

"Much needed and welcome.... Paints a picture of the early social history of Kentucky and the trans-Appalachian South that removes 'the original oils of memory' from the long, dearly held images of life on the Kentucky frontier."—Register of the Kentucky Historical Society

Register of the Kentucky Historical Society