Slavery -- Kentucky

Scope and Contents The American Slavery Collection is an artificial collection compiled from a variety of sources including donations of individual documents and purchases. The thirteen original items in this collection consist of ten bills of sale, one receipt, one document relating to manumission and the autobiography of a former slave who lived in Madison County, KY as a "free black" prior to 1850. There is also one item, a receipt that is probably a handwritten copy made in the early twentieth century. The...

Scope and Contents Dr. Thomas H. Appleton, Jr. started regularly collecting historical Kentucky materials after he started working at the Kentucky Historical Society in the 1980s. The collection he continues to build consists of materials such as correspondence, ephemera, publications, legal documents and other items, which span over 200 years of Kentucky history. Some notable figures mentioned in the correspondence include Henry Clay, Charles S. Morehead, A.B. 'Happy' Chandler, Phyllis George Brown, Alben...

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This collection consists of two letters with information about the War of 1812 and the Civil War, slavery and reconstruction.

Scope and Contents Curtis Field Burnam was a well-respected lawyer, judge, and statesman from Richmond, KY. He was a refined orator, as well, and numerous items in the collection are copies of addresses and orations which he presented to a variety of audiences. Much of the material has to do with the Civil War in Kentucky and in general. Many aspects of the Civil War, such as secession, abolition, and slavery, are reflected in the collection via newspaper articles, correspondence, and addresses. His daughter,...

Scope and Contents The Chenault Family Papers are an interesting collection for researchers in the area of slavery, religion, and the economic situation in Kentucky during the 18th and 19th centuries. The collection has important documents regarding slavery in folder eight. Information regarding religion can be found in folders, one, two and three. In folder two a collection of sixty-two marriage licenses can be found. In folder three important church documents...

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The Daniel Cox papers are a collection of receipts, promissory notes, itemized cost lists, court orders, and land transactions. They are important in providing a look into the life of Daniel Cox as well as his family, and provide some insight into day to day life in 19^th century Madison County including cost of goods and services, price of slaves, land prices, legal fees, medical treatment, and education.

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This series consists of twenty items ranging from a poem entitled 'To My Bobwhite" by Katheryn Parke to a copy of the oath in 1850 admitting Alexander Fife as a citizen of the United States.

Scope and Contents The Green - Fife - White Family Papers consist of correspondence and other documents from the family of Daniel Green and Margaret Ross Green and their descendants. The letters from Ireland to Alexander Fife are especially interesting as they discuss the economic and political situation in Ireland as well as information about family members and neighbors. The last letter in that series briefly mentions the Potato Famine. There are also numerous documents relating to slaves and slavery...

Scope and Contents This collection consists of the original court documents that were transcribed into the volumes held in the Madison County Courthouse. Included were receipts and notes that documented local businesses and epidemics as well as materials on the county poor house and infirmary. In the early 1900s there are dozens of receipts asking the court for burial expenses for individuals who couldn't afford them. These are pre-death certificates and may be helpful for genealogists to find death...

Scope and Contents The Major Family was a prominent Frankfort, KY family in the mid-nineteenth century. The bulk of the material in this collection relates to Samuel Ire Monger Major II, mayor of Frankfort following the Civil War, a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives and owner of the Kentucky Yeoman. A number of documents also relate to his father, Samuel Ire Monger Major I, who was Clerk of the Penitentiary of Kentucky and noted civic leader in early Frankfort;...