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In Lexington, enslaved people outnumbered the enslavers: 10,000 enslaved were owned by 1,700 slave owners. 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 ...
Map of Kentucky engraved by Young and Delleker for the 1827 edition of Anthony Finley's General Atlas (Geographicus Rare Antique Maps) Cheapside market in Lexington, Kentucky in the 1850s. 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]
September 17, 1826) was an early 19th-century American slave trader and tobacco merchant who worked in Lexington and lived in central Kentucky. He was killed, along with Edward Stone , Howard Stone and two others, in the 1826 Ohio River slave revolt , by slaves they were transporting south for resale. [ 1 ]
Map of Kentucky (Cumberland County in red) The Coe Ridge Colony was founded by Ezekiel (who went by Zeke on occasion) and Patsy Ann Coe in 1866. [1] After the January 1863 Emancipation Proclamation, which ended slavery in secessionist Confederate states, and the December 1865 ratification of the 13th Amendment, [2] [3] many ex-slaves struggled to find ways to support themselves and their families.
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 ...
He wrote a newspaper column on Kentucky historical topics for 20 years. [2] A lifelong resident of Lexington, Coleman owned Winburn Farm from 1936 until his death. [3] There was an exhibit of "slave lore" collected by Coleman at the University of Kentucky in 1940. [4] In addition to writing several books, he published over 50 pamphlets. [5]
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The Jockey Bar now resides near the historic site in downtown Lexington, Kentucky. Cheapside Park was a block in downtown Lexington, Kentucky, between Upper Street and Mill Street. Cheapside, originally Public Square, was the town's main marketplace in the nineteenth century and included a large slave market before the Civil War.