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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.”
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 ...
It does not apply to Kentucky, which had not joined the Confederacy. April 1863: Camp Nelson is established as a U.S. Army depot logistics center for the Western Theater of the Civil War.
Slave cabins in the Bluegrass (Coleman Collection, published by William H. Townsend, 1955) Mason County, Kentucky, slave pen now at the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. The history of slavery in Kentucky dates from the earliest permanent European settlements in the state, until the end of the Civil War.
March 22, 1902 issue of the Kentucky Reporter of Owensville. Alice Allison Dunnigan, pioneering journalist whose newspaper career began at the Rising Sun and Globe Journal in Hopkinsville, Kentucky. [1] This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in Kentucky. It includes both current and historical newspapers.
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]
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 confinement for those convicted of “Seducing or ...
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.