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The history of slavery in Kentucky dates from the earliest permanent European settlements in the state, until the end of the Civil War. In 1830, enslaved African Americans represented 24 percent of Kentucky's population, a share that declined to 19.5 percent by 1860, on the eve of the Civil War.
April 12, 1861: The American Civil War begin after Confederate troops fire on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina. Jan. 1, 1863: President Abraham Lincoln announces the Emancipation ...
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
"The Civil War in Kentucky: The Slave Claims His Freedom." Journal of Negro History (1982): 245–256. in JSTOR; Lewis, Patrick A. For Slavery and Union: Benjamin Buckner and Kentucky Loyalties in the Civil War (University Press of Kentucky, 2015) 263 pp. McDonough, James Lee. War in Kentucky: From Shiloh to Perryville (Univ. of Tennessee Press ...
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 ...
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. A. Blackwell, Lexington [1] Lewis Allen, "professional kidnapper," Maysville [2]
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The American Civil War began in 1861. The 13th Amendment, effective December 6, 1865, abolished slavery in the U.S. In the United States before 1865, a slave state was a state in which slavery and the internal or domestic slave trade were legal, while a free state was one in which they were prohibited. Between 1812 and 1850, it was considered ...