The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America

The Reckoning: Facing the Legacy of Slavery in America


Episode Ten: My Old Kentucky Home

April 26, 2021

If you live in Kentucky, it is hard to avoid hearing the state song, My Old Kentucky Home. But it is a song with a lot of historical baggage relating to the legacy of slavery and Jim Crow in Kentucky. Our guest, historian Emily Bingham, will help us unpack that baggage. She is the author of an upcoming book about the song, Singing About Slavery: “My Old Kentucky Home.”