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2. Waveland State Historic Site - Wikipedia

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   Waveland State Historic Site, also known as the Joseph Bryan House, in Lexington, Kentucky is the site of a Greek Revival home and 10 acres now maintained and operated as part of the Kentucky state park system. It was the home of the Joseph Bryan family, their descendants and the people they enslaved in the nineteenth century.

3. History of slavery in Kentucky - Wikipedia

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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 ...

4. Ashland (Henry Clay estate) - Wikipedia

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   Ashland is the name of the plantation of the 19th-century Kentucky statesman Henry Clay, [2] located in Lexington, Kentucky, in the central Bluegrass region of the state. The buildings were built by slaves who also grew and harvested hemp, farmed livestock, and cooked and cleaned for the Clays.

5. You can now view over 70,000 pages of Lexington’s earliest ...

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   The Digital Access Project is a collaboration between the city and the University of Kentucky which took thousands of Lexington’s earliest records, including slave and land records, and made ...

6. List of plantations in Kentucky - Wikipedia

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   After seeing six of his younger brothers sold away to other slave owners, Bibb escaped from slavery in 1842 and went on to work as an abolitionist and set up the first black newspaper in Canada. 10000904 Woodstock Plantation: November 10, 2010: Trenton: Todd: Built in 1830, the home was once part of the 3,000 acres Woodstock Plantation.

7. 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.

8. List of museums in Kentucky - Wikipedia

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   Kentucky Derby Museum: Louisville: Jefferson: Derby Region: Sports: American Thoroughbred horse racing museum Kentucky Folk Art Center: Morehead: Rowan: Kentucky's Appalachians: Art: Part of Morehead State University, self-taught art, exhibits of folk art, fine art, textiles, photography, and historical content Kentucky Gateway Museum Center ...

9. Kentucky’s Constitution still allows for slavery. A group of ...

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   Swartzentruber, a minister of Lexington’s South Elkhorn Christian Church, learned of the exception clause after his church youth group took a trip to Alabama in 2022 to visit several slavery and ...