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Chapter two sets Susan Grigsby’s childhood and adolescence against the backdrop of Kentucky’s early modernization. This came in the way of internal improvements, the general quickening of businesses, urban growth, new industry, new ideas seeping in from the more economically and socially advanced Northeast. The member of an extended family of liberal attitudes on slavery and woman’s education, young Susan subscribed to their views. Yet, a close sequence of tragic events hitting her family operated to predispose her to set aside ideals of personal independence, and consent to early marriage with John Grigsby. An honest man modest circumstances, he revealed himself the unwanted source of Susan’s future difficulties as a slaveholder of antislavery persuasion. |
