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Sharecropper plowing, Montgomery County, Alabama (1944) Alabama was one of the first seven states to withdraw from the Union prior to the American Civil War. The slave trade continued unabated in Alabama until at least 1863, with busy markets in Mobile and Montgomery largely undisputed by the war. [15]: 99–100
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 ...
The Alabama Department of Archives and History holds two bills of sale for people trafficked by Cobb: Cobb sold Primas and Mille in 1807 (or 1801), and bought Claiborn in Huntsville, Alabama Territory, in 1818. [3] There was a letter waiting for Cobb at the Lexington, Kentucky post office in January 1816. [4]
John W. Anderson (1801?–September 20, 1836) was an American interstate slave trader and farmer based near Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky. Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court John Marshall was an investor who funded Anderson's slave speculations. Anderson was involved in the establishment of the Forks of the Road slave market in 1833.
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.”
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Lexington was a central city in the state for the slave trade. [3] 12 percent of Kentucky's slave owners enslaved 20 or more people, 70 white families enslaved 50 or more people. Fluctuating markets, seasonal needs and widely varying geographical conditions characterized Kentucky slavery. [1]
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