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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.
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.
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
Register of the Kentucky Historical Society 95.2 (1997): 121–134. online; 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."
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.”