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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 geographical conditions characterized Kentucky slavery. [1]
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Nov. 22-24, 1864: Camp Nelson expels more than 400 Black refugees, most of them women and children during a cold snap. Of those, 102 people die. Of those, 102 people die.
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The slave trade continued unabated in Alabama until at least 1863, with busy markets in Mobile and Montgomery largely undisputed by the war. [ 15 ] : 99–100 Slavery had been theoretically abolished by President Abraham Lincoln 's Emancipation Proclamation which proclaimed, in 1863, that only slaves located in territories that were in ...
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.”
Lucas, Marion B. "Kentucky Blacks: The Transition from Slavery to Freedom." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 91.4 (1993): 403–419. online; Lucas, Marion B. "Berea College in the 1870s and 1880s: Student Life at a Racially Integrated Kentucky College." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 98.1 (2000): 1–22. online
Linda Blackford: On Juneteenth, remember where Black Kentuckians issued their own Emancipation Proclamation. More than 10,000 either enlisted in the Civil War on the Union’s side or trained at ...