{"id":32407,"date":"2013-07-18T03:13:33","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T03:13:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32407"},"modified":"2013-07-18T23:57:50","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T23:57:50","slug":"henry-samuel-frankfort-barber-and-free-man-of-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32407","title":{"rendered":"Henry Samuel, Frankfort Barber and Free Man of Color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/randomthoughtsonhistory.blogspot.com\/2013\/03\/henry-samuel-frankfort-barber-and-free.html\" target=\"_blank\">Henry Samuel, Frankfort Barber and Free Man of Color<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/randomthoughtsonhistory.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Random Thoughts on History: My musings on American, African American, Southern, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Public History topics and books<\/a><br \/>\n2013-03-19<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogger.com\/profile\/02184297245966915181\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Talbott<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Frankfort, Kentucky<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Recently reading <em><a href=\"http:\/\/jhupbooks.press.jhu.edu\/ecom\/MasterServlet\/GetItemDetailsHandler?iN=9780801892837&amp;qty=1&amp;source=2&amp;viewMode=3\" target=\"_blank\">Knights of the Razor: Black Barbers in Slavery and Freedom<\/a><\/em> got me to wondering if <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Frankfort,_Kentucky\" target=\"_blank\">Frankfort<\/a> had any black barbers in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/History_of_the_United_States_(1789%E2%80%931849)\" target=\"_blank\">antebellum era<\/a>. Well, I didn&#8217;t have to look too hard to find one. No, I didn&#8217;t have to search through slides of microfilm searching the 1860 census records for <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Franklin_County,_Kentucky\" target=\"_blank\">Franklin County<\/a> barbers\u2014after all, in this\u00a0particular\u00a0case that would not have helped me.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately, I had remembered seeing an advertisement for a town barber while browsing through issues of the <em>Frankfort Commonwealth<\/em> newspaper some time back. And, it was not difficult to find these particular advertisements when I went back searching, because Henry Samuel had an ad in almost every\u00a0edition\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0newspaper for many years in the 1850s and 1860s. He must have been a firm believer in the old adage that &#8220;advertising pays.&#8221; However, there was no clue from the advertisements whether he was African American or white. That part took some searching&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/randomthoughtsonhistory.blogspot.com\/2013\/03\/henry-samuel-frankfort-barber-and-free.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Henry Samuel, Frankfort Barber and Free Man of Color Random Thoughts on History: My musings on American, African American, Southern, Civil War, Reconstruction, and Public History topics and books 2013-03-19 Tim Talbott Frankfort, Kentucky Recently reading Knights of the Razor: Black Barbers in Slavery and Freedom got me to wondering if Frankfort had any black [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,459,8,20],"tags":[15223,495,10554,10553],"class_list":["post-32407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-henry-samuel","tag-kentucky","tag-random-thoughts-on-history","tag-tim-talbott"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}