Evil Necessity: Slavery and Political Culture in Antebellum Kentucky
by Harold D. Tallant
Some Web Links About Slavery
Kentuckys Underground RailroadPassage to Freedomcompanion site to a KET documentary
Slavery and the Making of Americacompanion site to the PBS series
Books about slavery in Kentucky from Amazon user Richard Pangburn of Bardstown
KETs 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 Freedoms Journeyan 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
Lincolns Epiphanyan article from the Rochester City News about an 1862 letter in which President Abraham Lincoln proposed that the Union buy all the Souths slaves instead of fighting for their freedom
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