kentucky chautauqua

A novelist who was the first African-American to be published abroad. A former slave who sued her master for freedom. And one of the first black men to graduate from West Point. These are just some of the historical figures actors with the Kentucky Chautauqua program portray, telling their stories in communities across the Commonwealth.

In their book "A New History of Kentucky," historians Lowell Harrison and James Klotter called Madeline McDowell Breckinridge the most influential woman…