Abstract

Robert M. Johnson was an African American expatriate who had been enslaved for 24 years in Lexington, KY, to Dorothea D. Christian and her husband the Rev. James Fishback. Johnson escaped and gained his freedom sometime after 1841, thereafter making his way to Canada, where he stayed for several years before leaving North America to become a medical student in Edinburgh, Scotland, and a medical doctor in Sheffield, England.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2024

Notes/Citation Information

Jones, Reinette F. “Looking Back: An International Collaboration: The Life of Robert M. Johnson from Enslavement in Lexington, Kentucky to a Medical Practice in Sheffield, England.” Kentucky Libraries, v.88, no.3, pp.18-20.

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