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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. Most enslaved people were concentrated in the ...
Dec. 6, 1865: National ratification of 13th Amendment, which ends slavery in the United States. The amendment is ratified by 27 of the existing 36 states. Kentucky is not one of them. (Note from ...
As early as 1777, Blacks made up about 10% of Kentucky residents. In 1784, Kentucky was estimated to have 4,000 Blacks. In 1790, the black population grew to 16% with 11,830 slaves and 114 freemen. Then in 1800, the population was up to 19% with 41,084 black residents.
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 ...
Utah. Washington. Kentucky was a southern border state of key importance in the American Civil War. It officially declared its neutrality at the beginning of the war, but after a failed attempt by Confederate General Leonidas Polk to take the state of Kentucky for the Confederacy, the legislature petitioned the Union Army for assistance.
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 Anti-Slavery Record (1835) The Paris, Kentucky slave coffle of summer 1822 is notable among thousands of such coffles of chained slaves forced to travel overland as part of the interstate slave trade in the United States because it was observed and carefully described by Ohio Presbyterian minister Rev. James H. Dickey, [ 1] who reported ...
Henry Walton Bibb (May 10, 1815– August 1, 1854), [1][2] was an American author and abolitionist who was born into slavery. Bibb told his life story in his Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, An American Slave, [3] which included many failed escape attempts followed finally by success when he escaped to Detroit. After leaving ...