Evenings Upstairs: African American Lives and Landscapes on the Lower Tennessee River

Led by Christopher​ Thornock, archaeologist and the Heritage Program Manager at Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area
Thornock’s presentation delves into the diverse histories of several African American communities, both slave and free, in Western Kentucky along the lower Tennessee River. Among the topics he will discussed are mixed-race farming families with both slave and free members, the substantial labor force of the region’s Iron Industry both during and after slavery, the displacement of communities, and the biographies of individuals and their families living in Western Kentucky throughout the 1800s and into the 1960s.
Christopher Thornock is an archaeologist and the Heritage Program Manager at Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area