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- Reverend Barney Stone
May 17, 1847 — November 20, 1942 Formerly Enslaved · Union Soldier · Educator · Minister Most of what is written here comes from Stone’s own account, given to the Federal Writers’ Project in the late 1930s, and from a history compiled by many contributors. Barney Stone was born into slavery on May 17, 1847, in Spencer County, Kentucky, on a plantation owned by Lemuel Stone. His mother bore ten children, all enslaved; his …