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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. Most enslaved people were concentrated in the cities of Louisville and Lexington and in the hemp - and tobacco -producing Bluegrass Region and Jackson Purchase .
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
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 ...
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]
With the rise of the anti-slavery movement, Kentucky lawmakers revised the criminal code in 1830 to provide for a ... did not taste freedom until 1870—over five years after the death of slavery ...
On New Year's Eve in 1862, African Americans ... This Union-occupied zone where freedom began at once ... There were approximately 40,000 slaves in Kentucky and 1,000 ...
Henrietta Wood (c. 1819 – 1912) was an American woman held as a slave who won the largest verdict ever awarded for slavery reparations in the United States. Born as a slave in Kentucky, but freed as an adult, Wood was later kidnapped and sold back into slavery.
David Childs, a professor of Black studies at Northern Kentucky University, said many southern states in the late 1880s and early 1900s contracted with plantations to provide labor.