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2. History of slavery in Kentucky - Wikipedia

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   Prior to 1792, Kentucky formed the far-western frontier of Virginia, which had a long history of slavery and indentured servitude. In early Kentucky history, slavery was an integral part of the state's economy, though the use of slavery varied widely in a geographically diverse state. From 1790 to 1860, the slave population of Kentucky was ...

3. When did Kentucky actually abolish slavery? A lot later than ...

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   A timeline of historical events shows the complex nature of the Civil War, Camp Nelson and emancipation in Kentucky. When did Kentucky actually abolish slavery? A lot later than you think.

4. Timeline of Kentucky history - Wikipedia

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   February 2, 1833 • Kentucky's legislature passed the Non-Importation Act was part of a national trend to strengthen the laws regarding slavery and the rising efforts for personal liberty, including the increased efforts within the Underground Railroad freedom movement [9] in which the state of Kentucky focused as an important crossroads. The ...

5. Kentucky’s role in slaves’ emancipation: ‘Camp Nelson is our ...

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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.

6. History of African Americans in Kentucky - Wikipedia

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   Lucas, Marion B. "Kentucky Blacks: The Transition from Slavery to Freedom." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 91.4 (1993): 403–419. online; Lucas, Marion B. "Berea College in the 1870s and 1880s: Student Life at a Racially Integrated Kentucky College." Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 98.1 (2000): 1–22. online

7. 'Out of the Jaws of Hell!': Kentucky’s history of anti ...

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   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 ...

8. List of Kentucky slave traders - Wikipedia

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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.

9. List of abolitionist periodicals published in North America

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   These publications, most of which were short-lived and had limited circulation, existed to share information that promoted the decline and fall of American slavery. This list is focused on newspapers whose predominant interest was the abolition of slavery , rather than any American newspaper that held a generally anti-slavery editorial position.