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Kentucky did not abolish slavery during the Civil War, as did the border states of Maryland and Missouri. However, during the war, more than 70% of slaves in Kentucky were freed or escaped to Union lines. [14] The war undermined the institution of slavery. Enslaved people quickly learned that authority and protection resided with the Union army.
Lucas, Marion B. "African Americans on the Kentucky Frontier." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 95.2 (1997): 121–134. online; Lucas, Marion B. "Kentucky Blacks: The Transition from Slavery to Freedom." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 91.4 (1993): 403–419. online
The Kentucky General Assembly attempted to ban or at least cripple the slave trade in 1833 with the Non-Importation Act, which banned the importation of slaves into the Commonwealth for the purpose of selling them. [8] The slave trade was outlawed in 1864. The Cheapside market continued until 1922 when it was declared a public nuisance and banned.
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.
Circa 1792, settlers were predominantly Anglo-American and two out of every three slaves in the Natchez District were African-born. [14] Slaves from overseas were often re-exported through the West Indies, particularly British colonial Jamaica, [15] whose planters preferred to buy Igbo, Yakö, and Yoruba people "from the Gold Coast and the ...
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 ...
The escape of Native American slaves was frequent, because they had a better understanding of the land, which African slaves did not. Consequently, the Natives who were captured and sold into slavery were often sent to the West Indies, or far away from their home. [3] The first African slave on record was located in Jamestown.
In 1825 he was listed as a witness in a court case in Natchez, Mississippi involving a Kentucky slave trader named Edward Stone and a male slave who had gotten into a fight. [1] The following year, Stone and his nephew Howard Stone and three other men would be killed on the Ohio River by slaves they were transporting south to the cotton kingdom ...