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Slave cabins in the Bluegrass (Coleman Collection, published by William H. Townsend, 1955) Mason County, Kentucky, slave pen now at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The history of slavery in Kentucky dates from the earliest permanent European settlements in the state, until the end of the Civil War.
After serving 12 years behind prison walls, ... 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 ...
A map of Illinois free and slave counties in 1824 showing shaded counties that were favorable to legalizing slavery in Illinois. Map of the Underground Railroad from 1830 to 1865 including escape routes that went through Illinois. Slavery in what became the U.S. state of Illinois existed for more than a century. Illinois did not become a state ...
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.
[1] [2] Rev. Josiah Henson, a former enslaved man who fled slavery via the Underground Railroad with his wife Nancy and their children, was a cofounder of the Dawn Settlement in 1841. Dawn Settlement was designed to be a community for black refugees, where children and adults could receive an education and develop skills so that they could prosper.
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 ...
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However, slavery legally persisted in Delaware, [49] Kentucky, [50] and (to a very limited extent, due to a trade ban but continued gradual abolition) New Jersey, [51] [52] until the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution abolished slavery throughout the United States, except as punishment for a crime, on December 18, 1865 ...