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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.
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 ...
A History of Blacks in Kentucky: From Slavery to Segregation, 1760–1891 (2nd ed.). Frankfort: Kentucky Historical Society. ISBN 978-0-916968-32-8. LCCN 92024574. OCLC 1007290645. Project MUSE book 56781. McDougle, Ivan E. (1918). Slavery in Kentucky, 1792–1865. Library of Congress. Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Press of the New Era Printing Company.
Crimean–Nogai slave raids in Eastern Europe were the slave raids, for over three centuries, conducted by the military of the Crimean Khanate and the Nogai Horde primarily in lands controlled by Russia [b] and Poland-Lithuania [c] as well as other territories, often under the sponsorship of the Ottoman Empire, which provided slaves for the Crimean and Ottoman slave trades.
Many enslaved men are joined by their families, although the Army has not made provision for them. Nov. 22-24, 1864: Camp Nelson expels more than 400 Black refugees, most of them women and ...
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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 ...
Pages in category "History of slavery in Kentucky" The following 24 pages are in this category, out of 24 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...