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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 ...
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.
Linda Blackford: On Juneteenth, remember where Black Kentuckians issued their own Emancipation Proclamation. More than 10,000 either enlisted in the Civil War on the Union’s side or trained at ...
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 ...
After the publishing of an incendiary anti-slavery editorial titled "What is Become of the Slaves in the United States?" in August 1845, a group of outraged citizens ran the newspaper out of Lexington, Kentucky with a court injunction. [2] [3] Cassius continued to publish his paper through 1847 after moving his publishing company to Cincinnati ...
Jordan Arterburn (1808–1875) and Tarlton Arterburn (1810–1883) were brothers and interstate slave traders of the 19th-century United States. They typically bought enslaved people in their home state of Kentucky in the upper south, and then moved them to Mississippi in the lower south, where there was a constant demand for enslaved laborers on the plantations of King Cotton.
Section 25 of the Kentucky Constitution reads: “Slavery and involuntary servitude in this state are forbidden, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.”
Pages in category "History of slavery in Kentucky" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...