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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.
The history of slavery in Kentucky dates from the earliest permanent European settlements in the state, until the end of the Civil War. In 1830, enslaved African Americans represented 24 percent of Kentucky's population, a share that declined to 19.5 percent by 1860, on the eve of the Civil War.
Throughout the antebellum era, the criminal justice system was slavery’s main line of defense in Kentucky. With the rise of the anti-slavery movement, Kentucky lawmakers revised the criminal ...
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 ...
He wrote a newspaper column on Kentucky historical topics for 20 years. [2] A lifelong resident of Lexington, Coleman owned Winburn Farm from 1936 until his death. [3] There was an exhibit of "slave lore" collected by Coleman at the University of Kentucky in 1940. [4] In addition to writing several books, he published over 50 pamphlets. [5]
Jordan Arterburn (1808–1875) and Tarlton Arterburn (1810–1883) were brothers and interstate slave traders of the 19th-century United States. They typically bought enslaved people in their home state of Kentucky in the upper south, and then moved them to Mississippi in the lower south, where there was a constant demand for enslaved laborers on the plantations of King Cotton.
The Free South was an abolitionist newspaper which was printed in Kentucky by William Shreve Bailey from 1858 to 1866. Bailey was from Centerville, Ohio and moved down to Newport, Kentucky to find work which he found as a cotton machinist and engine builder and in his spare time wrote into Newport News, a small local paper. [1]
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