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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 ...
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.
April 1863: Camp Nelson is established as a U.S. Army depot logistics center for the Western Theater of the Civil War. Enslaved Kentuckians built a series of forts as a defense along the palisades ...
John W. Anderson (1801?–September 20, 1836) was an American interstate slave trader and farmer based near Maysville, Mason County, Kentucky.Chief Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court John Marshall was an investor who funded Anderson's slave speculations.
Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press and the Indiana Historical Society Press. ISBN 978-0-253-01308-8. McClew, Maurice, "The Underground Railroad in Steuben County" in Morley, Harvey, ed. (1956). The 1955 History, Complete County Atlas, Pictorial and Biographical Album of Steuben County ...
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.”
The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society (1978): 1–21. in JSTOR; Howard, Victor B. "The Civil War in Kentucky: The Slave Claims His Freedom." Journal of Negro History (1982): 245–256. in JSTOR; Lewis, Patrick A. For Slavery and Union: Benjamin Buckner and Kentucky Loyalties in the Civil War (University Press of Kentucky, 2015) 263 pp.
The Mason County, Kentucky slave pen played a very important role in the American slave trade, confining slaves who were intended to go farther south for sale. This slave pen was recovered from a farm in Mason County, Kentucky , United States, which was owned by a slave trader named John W. Anderson , who played a significant part within the ...