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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.
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 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.
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 ...
Throughout the antebellum era, the criminal justice system was slavery’s main line of defense in Kentucky. With the rise of the anti-slavery movement, Kentucky lawmakers revised the criminal ...
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.
The Civil War in Kentucky (University Press of Kentucky, 2010) Howard, Victor B. "The Civil War in Kentucky: The Slave Claims His Freedom." Journal of Negro History (1982): 245–256. in JSTOR; McKnight, Brian Dallas. Contested Borderland: The Civil War in Appalachian Kentucky and Virginia (University Press of Kentucky, 2006) Marshall, Anne ...
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.