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Free Frank: a Black Pioneer on the Antebellum Frontier

by
Juliet E.K. Walker

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Contents


   List of Illustrations - viii
   List of Tables - ix
   Acknowledgments - xi
   Introduction - 1

1. A Slave Who Would Be Free - 7
2. The Formative Years - 13
3. "For a Valuable Consideration" - 28
4. Speculation in Freedom - 49
5. Black Pathfinders on the Illinois Frontier - 71
6. Land Acquisitions and New Philadelphia's Origin - 93
7. The Development of New Philadelphia - 122
8. The Achievement of a Dream - 147

   Epilogue - 164
   Notes- 175
   Bibliographic Note - 207
   Index - 215



Illustrations

 1.   Lucy McWorter, wife of Free Frank                              43
 2.   Surveyor's plat of Free Frank's Pulaski County land            56
 3.   Kentucky Certificate of Good Character, 1830                   69
 4.   Solomon McWorter, son of Free Frank                            90
 5.   Surveyor's map of Free Frank's Hadley township land            97
 6.   Plat of New Philadelphia, 1836                                104
 7.   Map of Hadley township                                        129
 8.   Location of New Philadelphia's businesses and services        134
 9.   Subscribers' list for Free Will Baptist Seminary              137
10.   Map of Pike County, Illinois                                  166
11.   Arthur McWorter, grandson of Free Frank                       171
12.   Thelma McWorter Kirkpatrick Wheaton,
      great-granddaughter of Free Frank                             171



List of Tables


 1.   Approximate birth and death dates of Free Frank's surviving
      children                                                       24
 2.   Kentucky and Pulaski County population, 1800-1830              29
 3.   Free Frank's land acquisitions in Kentucky, 1821-1829          55
 4.   Illinois and Pike County population, 1810-1860        78
 5.   Average market commodity prices in Pike County, 1833-1835      88
 6.   Real property purchased by Free Frank and his sons
      in Pike County, 1830-1839                                      94
 7.   Hadley township public land sales, 1833-1850                  102
 8.   New Philadelphia town lots sold by Free Frank, 1837-1854      126
 9.   New Philadelphia town lots sold by others, 1844-1854          127
10.   Occupational distribution of New Philadelphia towns-
      people, 1850                                                  133
11.   New Philadelphia Post Office records, 1849-1853               135
12.   Taxes on Free Frank's farmland for 1853                       155
13.   Assessed valuation of New Philadelphia town lots in 1848,
      and prices of town lots sold for estate settlement in 1858    161
14.   Free Frank family members purchased, 1817-1857                162
      Chart: Descendants (partial) of Free Frank and Lucy McWorter  168

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