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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.”
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.
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 ...
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]
The Free South was an abolitionist newspaper which was printed in Kentucky by William Shreve Bailey from 1858 to 1866. Bailey was from Centerville, Ohio and moved down to Newport, Kentucky to find work which he found as a cotton machinist and engine builder and in his spare time wrote into Newport News, a small local paper. [1]
March 22, 1902 issue of the Kentucky Reporter of Owensville. Alice Allison Dunnigan, pioneering journalist whose newspaper career began at the Rising Sun and Globe Journal in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. [1] This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in Kentucky. It includes both current and historical newspapers.
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 ...
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.