"Affidavits" By Frank X Walker

Описание: "Affidavits"
By Frank X Walker
From his book, Load in Nine Times
Frazier History Museum
Louisville, Kentucky
October 8, 2024

You'll find Load in Nine Times: Poems at amazon.com:
https://amzn.to/3BLRGQA

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As part of Reckoning's Kentucky U.S. Colored Troops Project, we are researching the lives of African American men who either enlisted in the Union Army in Kentucky or were born in Kentucky and enlisted elsewhere. Our eventual goal is to create in-depth records for all such men. To do this, we are using a variety of archival documents, including slave schedules, church records, wills, estate inventories, pension documents, census data, and newspapers to create a database record for each soldier and his family with links to primary source documents as well as a family tree. The results of this research are published in a searchable database, with new information being added regularly.

https://kyusct.org/database/

In 2022 Kentucky's former Poet Laureate Frank X Walker began work on Reckoning's "Soldiers Stories", a series of biographical pieces about individual soldiers culled from information in our KYUSCT soldier database. Inspired by the rich resource materials and stunned at how even the official documents and forms contributed to enslaved persons' dehumanization, Mr. Walker began crafting poetry connected to the soldiers' lives. And then—among the soldiers' pension files, military service records, census records, and Freedman's Bank notes—was Walker's 3rd Great-Grandfather on his mother's side, Pvt Randall Edelen of the 125th U.S. Colored Infantry.

You'll find more poetry by Frank X Walker within Reckoning's "Soldiers Stories" here:
https://kyusct.org/biographical-profi...
and here:
https://kyusct.org/biographical-profi...

Learn more about Reckoning's Kentucky U.S. Colored Troops Project, and explore our
KYUSCT soldier database by visiting:
https://kyusct.org/