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Slave cabins in the Bluegrass (Coleman Collection, published by William H. Townsend, 1955) Mason County, Kentucky, slave pen now at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The history of slavery in Kentucky dates from the earliest permanent European settlements in the state, until the end of the Civil War.
Map of Kentucky engraved by Young and Delleker for the 1827 edition of Anthony Finley's General Atlas (Geographicus Rare Antique Maps). This is a list of slave traders active in the U.S. state of Kentucky from settlement until the end of the American Civil War in 1865.
Although national ratification of the 13th Amendment meant Kentucky was bound to the federal law, Kentucky did not itself ratify it until 1976. As always, thank goodness for Mississippi. It did ...
Genius of Universal Emancipation (1823) The Anti-Slavery Record (1835). The Paris, Kentucky slave coffle of summer 1822 is notable among thousands of such coffles of chained slaves forced to travel overland as part of the interstate slave trade in the United States because it was observed and carefully described by Ohio Presbyterian minister Rev. James H. Dickey, [1] who reported that the ...
With the rise of the anti-slavery movement, Kentucky lawmakers revised the criminal code in 1830 to provide for a sentence of from two to 20 years confinement for those convicted of “Seducing or ...
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Kentucky was a southern border state of key importance in the American Civil War.It officially declared its neutrality at the beginning of the war, but after a failed attempt by Confederate General Leonidas Polk to take the state of Kentucky for the Confederacy, the legislature petitioned the Union Army for assistance.
Matthew Garrison [a] (c. 1809 – July 29, 1863) was an American interstate slave trader who bought in Kentucky and sold in Louisiana and Mississippi from the 1830s into the 1860s. He ran one of the major slave jails in antebellum Louisville, Kentucky .