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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. A. Blackwell, Lexington [1] Lewis Allen, "professional kidnapper," Maysville [2]
Kentucky was a southern border state of key importance in the American Civil War.It officially declared its neutrality at the beginning of the war, but after a failed attempt by Confederate General Leonidas Polk to take the state of Kentucky for the Confederacy, the legislature petitioned the Union Army for assistance.
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.
Prichard co-authored with John B. Wells III, 10th Kentucky Cavalry, C.S.A (Baltimore, Md.: Gateway Press, 1996) and author of Embattled Capital: Frankfort, Kentucky in the Civil War (Frankfort ...
The "branded slave" photograph of Chinn with "VBM" (the initials of his owner, Volsey B. Marmillion) branded on his forehead, wearing a punishment collar, and posing with other equipment used to punish slaves became one of the most widely circulated photos of the abolitionist movement during the American Civil War and remains one of the most ...
Camp Nelson, Kentucky: A Civil War History. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2246-5. Amy Murrell Taylor (2018) Embattled Freedom: Journeys Through the Civil War's Slave Refugee Camps. University of North Caroline Press ISBN 9781469643625; Marion B. Lucas (2003) A History of Blacks in Kentucky: From Slavery to Segregation 1760–1891 ...
The episode will focus on the events of Jan. 25, 1865, when 22 Civil War soldiers were ambushed by outlaws and killed, while 20 more were injured, during a cattle drive to Louisville.
Matthew Garrison [a] (c. 1809 – July 29, 1863) was an American interstate slave trader who bought in Kentucky and sold in Louisiana and Mississippi from the 1830s into the 1860s. He ran one of the major slave jails in antebellum Louisville, Kentucky .