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The Digital Access Project is a collaboration between the city and the University of Kentucky which took thousands of Lexington’s earliest records, including slave and land records, and made ...
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 ...
London Ferrill, also spelled Ferrell, (1789–October 12, 1854) was a former enslaved man and carpenter from Virginia who became the second preacher of the First African Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky, serving from 1823 to 1854. During his 31 years of service, Ferrill attracted and baptized many new members in the growing region; by 1850 ...
His Slavery Times in Kentucky remains a standard reference on the topic, [2] and papers and images he collected during his research are held at the University of Kentucky libraries. [5] He died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound in 1983 after a long illness. [2] Coleman was buried at Lexington Cemetery. [6]
True to the words, Clay was honored with a 120-foot tall column topped with a sculpture of the man himself. Clay and his wife were moved to rest in the monument’s vault 12 years after his death.
By the end of the war in 1865, more than 23,000 African Americans had joined the U.S. Army in Kentucky. That made it the second-largest contributor of United States Colored Troops from any state.
Stone was one of the handful of Kentucky slave traders who openly advertised early in the 19th century. [3] The Grange in Bourbon County, Kentucky was originally constructed to be his home. [4] The early history of the house, located on the Lexington–Maysville Pike, was described in the 1973 application for the National Register of Historic ...
Waveland State Historic Site, also known as the Joseph Bryan House, in Lexington, Kentucky is the site of a Greek Revival home and 10 acres now maintained and operated as part of the Kentucky state park system. It was the home of the Joseph Bryan family, their descendants and the people they enslaved in the nineteenth century.