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Prior to 1792, Kentucky formed the far-western frontier of Virginia, which had a long history of slavery and indentured servitude. In early Kentucky history, slavery was an integral part of the state's economy, though the use of slavery varied widely in a geographically diverse state. From 1790 to 1860, the slave population of Kentucky was ...
By the end of the war in 1865, more than 23,000 African Americans had joined the U.S. Army in Kentucky. That made it the second-largest contributor of United States Colored Troops from any state.
Presently working on a book length study of guerrilla warfare in eastern Kentucky and a scholarly article on those Abolitionists confined in the Kentucky State Penitentiary for aiding fugitive slaves.
This book really started with a Louisville group called Reckoning, Inc., a nonprofit trying to digitize numerous old records, including wills, deeds and military papers, to help Black Kentuckians ...
He wrote a newspaper column on Kentucky historical topics for 20 years. [2] A lifelong resident of Lexington, Coleman owned Winburn Farm from 1936 until his death. [3] There was an exhibit of "slave lore" collected by Coleman at the University of Kentucky in 1940. [4] In addition to writing several books, he published over 50 pamphlets. [5]
Kentucky Rising: Democracy, Slavery, and Culture from the Early Republic to the Civil War (University Press of Kentucky, 2011) online. Smith, Gerald L., Karen Cotton McDaniel, and John A. Hardin, eds. The Kentucky African American Encyclopedia (University Press of Kentucky, 2015). online; also see online book review
It does not apply to Kentucky, which had not joined the Confederacy. April 1863: Camp Nelson is established as a U.S. Army depot logistics center for the Western Theater of the Civil War.
He was an anti-slavery newspaper publisher, politician, soldier and Minister to Russia through the Lincoln, Johnson and Grant administrations. He published True American for nearly 25 years. This restored 44-room Italianate house began as a 8-room structure built in 1798–1799 in the Georgian style by General Green Clay which he called Clermont.