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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.
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.
In the late 1960s he donated "3,500 books and pamphlets," scrapbooks, photographs, "Kentucky church histories, maps, atlases, personal correspondence and manuscripts" to Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky. [2] His Slavery Times in Kentucky remains a standard reference on the topic, [2] and papers and images he collected during his ...
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 ...
John W. Anderson (1801?–September 20, 1836) was an American interstate slave trader and farmer based near Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky. Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court John Marshall was an investor who funded Anderson's slave speculations. Anderson was involved in the establishment of the Forks of the Road slave market in 1833.
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 ...
The McConnell House, Law Office, and Slave Quarters, near Wurtland, Kentucky, United States, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975. The listing included three contributing buildings and a contributing site on 15 acres (6.1 ha). [1] It is located west of Wurtland on U.S. Route 23. It has also been known as Harris House
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.”