Interview about Sarah Piatt with Bridget Striker by Dr. Elizabeth Renker (Part 2)
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2024-02
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Ohio State University. Rare Books and Manuscripts Library
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Interview with Bridget Striker, Director of the Boone County Borderlands Archive and History Center at the Boone County Public Library in Burlington, KY. Striker graduated from the State University of New York at Brockport with a degree in Anthropology and worked in environmental consulting as an Archaeologist and Geographic Information Systems Mapping Specialist before earning a Master's degree in Library Science. She brings her expertise in archaeology, mapping, and historic preservation into her work on Boone County's complex history, including Underground Railroad routes and activities and other freedom-seeking events by enslaved people. In this second part of a two-part interview, she discusses enslavement practices in Boone County, Kentucky; the Kentucky enslaver relatives of Sarah's husband, Ohioan John James Piatt; the existing documentation about the people the Kentucky Piatt families enslaved and their efforts to seek their freedom; and the complexities of the lives of enslaved people, especially along the borderlands region of Kentucky, Ohio, and Indiana. Interview conducted via Zoom by Dr. Elizabeth Renker from the Department of English at The Ohio State University.
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Remote interview conducted in Columbus, Ohio.
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Piatt, Sarah M. B. (Sarah Morgan Bryan), 1836-1919, Striker, Bridget -- Interviews