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slavery early
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1790, More slave's than actual kentucky natives.
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Methodists organize in Kentucky. The first federal census counts 11,830 slaves on the Kentucky frontier. Fayette, Woodford and surrounding counties have the largest African American population in Kentucky.
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Founding of the Kentucky Abolition Society and publication of the anti-slavery Abolition Intelligencer and Missionary Magazine. Kentucky becomes major exporter of slaves to the South.
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Free blacks allowed to legally marry each other, but not allowed to marry slaves.
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!830-1850, 23% of all white males owned black slaves
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Kentucky legislature passes law prohibiting importation of African slaves into the state for resale south.
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Liberty Party
Liberty Party formed. The entry of the antislavery forces into politics was signaled by the establishment of the Liberty party, which held its founding convention at Warsaw, NY in 1839 and nominated James G. Birney, a native of Kentucky and a former slaveholder, for president, and Thomas Earle (Pa.) for vice president. These nominations were confirmed at the party's first national convention at Albany (1 April 1840).
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First African American Church in Lexington ky
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Cassius Clay publishes the anti-slavery newspaper True American.
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Slavery was abolished in United States territories. Lincoln continued to appeal to the loyal states to enact gradual and compensated emancipation. Aware of the public shift toward the radical position on slavery Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamatio
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Emancipation Proclamation,
President Lincoln signs the Emancipation Proclamation, freeing slaves in states that seceded from the Union. Kentucky never seceded, therefore its slaves were not freed under the Proclamation. Lincoln had submitted the first draft of the proclamation to his cabinet on 22 July, 1862, but was persuaded to withhold it because of military reverses.
On 1 December the president appealed to Congress for passage of a constitutional amendment providing for compensated emancipation, but the borde -
The Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution abolishes slavery and frees slaves in border states of Delaware, Kentucky, Missouri, and Maryland.
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Today you can still see old rock walls built by slaves in georgetown and winchester ky.
