Some Web Links About Slavery

Kentucky’s Underground Railroad—Passage to Freedom—companion site to a KET documentary

Slavery and the Making of America—companion site to the PBS series

Books about slavery in Kentucky from Amazon user Richard Pangburn of Bardstown

KET’s Electronic Field Trip to White Hall, the home of emancipationist Cassius Clay

The Early Days of Berea College, including background information on Clay and John G. Fee

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati

Narrating Freedom’s Journey—an article about the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center from Kentucky Living magazine

Letters from Ex-Slaves, Lexington, Kentucky 1830s-1880s is a collection of primary source documents compiled for a history course at the University of Kentucky.

I Subscribe Myself a Friend to the Oppressed, a letter from freedmen and political activist Henry Bibb to his former master, dated March 23, 1844

Short history of the American Colonization Society from Ohio History Central

Lincoln’s Epiphany—an article from the Rochester City News about an 1862 letter in which President Abraham Lincoln proposed that the Union buy all the South’s slaves instead of fighting for their freedom