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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.
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]
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 ...
Kentucky State Reformatory La Grange, Ky. Postcard view, c. 1940. Kentucky State Reformatory (KSR) is a medium-security prison for adult males. The prison is located in unincorporated Oldham County, Kentucky, [1] near La Grange, [2] and about 30 miles (48 km) northeast of Louisville. [3]
Weeks after he resigned from the prison, on Dec. 1, 2022, Dees was hired by the Kentucky Administrative Office of the Courts, the agency that runs the state’s courts, where he works as a program ...
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 ...
It was the first prison built west of the Allegheny Mountains and completed on June 22, 1800 when [1] Kentucky was still virtually a wilderness. The Kentucky Legislature of 1798 had appointed Harry Innes , Alexander S. Bullitt , Caleb Wallace, Isaac Shelby and John Coburn as commissioners to choose a location for a “penitentiary house.”
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