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In Lexington, enslaved people outnumbered the enslavers: 10,000 enslaved were owned by 1,700 slave owners. 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 ...
London Ferrill, also spelled Ferrell, (1789–October 12, 1854) was a former enslaved man and carpenter from Virginia who became the second preacher of the First African Baptist Church in Lexington, Kentucky, serving from 1823 to 1854. During his 31 years of service, Ferrill attracted and baptized many new members in the growing region; by 1850 ...
Map of Kentucky engraved by Young and Delleker for the 1827 edition of Anthony Finley's General Atlas (Geographicus Rare Antique Maps) This is a list of slave traders active in the U.S. state of Kentucky from settlement until the end of the American Civil War in 1865. A. Blackwell, Lexington [1] Lewis Allen, "professional kidnapper," Maysville [2]
J.R. Megowan was a part of a family of slave traders, auctioneers, and bondsmen—his brother, Thomas B. Megowan, was the owner of a "slave jail" in Kentucky. [ 19 ] [ 6 ] Henry Johnson begins with 48 slaves under his legal ownership in 1830, to 117 slaves in 1840, and to 442 slaves in 1850.
"Celebrated Vendetta" Maysville Daily Public Ledger, March 23, 1903 The deal that resulted in James McMillin's murder was supposedly done in December 1856. [11] In Slave-Trading in the Old South, Frederic Bancroft described the circumstances of McMillin's death, writing that he was "a well-known trader, who for years had ranged over Kentucky searching for slaves for Lexington and Memphis dealers.
William A. Pullum (c. 1809 – March 25, 1876) was a 19th-century American slave trader, and a principal of Griffin & Pullum.He was based in Lexington, Kentucky, and for many years purchased, imprisoned, and shipped enslaved people from Virginia and Kentucky south to the Forks-of-the-Road slave market in Natchez, Mississippi.
John Wesley Hunt (1773–1849) was an American businessman, slave trader, and early civic leader in Lexington, Kentucky. He was one of the first millionaires west of the Allegheny Mountains . Hunt enslaved as many as 77 people, many of them children, including farm and industrial and domestic workers.
Lewis Hayden was born into slavery in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1811, as one of a family of 25. [1] [nb 1] His mother was of mixed race, including African, European, and Native American ancestry; slavery of Native Americans had been prohibited since the 18th century.