Understanding a History of Slavery.

Kentucky

Source: http://www.worldatlas.com/webimage/countrys/namerica/usstates/counties/kynames.gif

Perhaps no state has caught my attention, as much as Kentucky. Many of our family lived in this border-state. I say border-state, as it was on the edge of the north-south line of the Civil war.

In February 1833, the Mason County Kentucky court administered the estate of James Dimmitt, who had been a hemp farmer. The items of his property were listed, with the usual barnyard animals, farm implements, etc., but towards the bottom of the register was listed 'property' of quite another type. Here, were 23 men and women, 'property' so-called. Men and women enslaved and listed below the sheep, horses, cattle, even below the hay.

Their names and "value" were listed as follows:

Negro woman Letty: $100

Negro woman Rachel: $250

Negro woman Caroline: $250

Negro woman Monicha: (65 years old) $1

Negro woman Fanny: $250

Negro girl Franky: $250

Negro girl Polly: $250

Negro girl Eveline: $300

Negro girl Peggy: $200

Negro girl Ellen: $150

Negro girl Jane: $125

Negro boy William: $100

Negro boy Andrew: $200

Negro boy Charles: $150

Negro boy Kenzey: $100

Negro man Moses: $250

Negro man James: $250

Negro man George: $300

Negro man Gus: $300

Negro man Cyrus: $300

Negro man Harry: $400

Negro man Peter: $400

Negro man Andrew: $400

It's difficult to imagine placing a dollar-amount on the life of a person. Perhaps, the most heart-breaking is the fact that they considered Monicha's life as being worth as little as one dollar.

In a later document, dated 1 April, 1843, we find the following:

"Deed of trust from William Tureman and Elizabeth Tureman. In consideration of the love she has for her daughter, Mrs. Deborah Ann Robinson (Robertson), Elizabeth Tureman conveys to Nathan S. Dimmet in trust for the use and benefit of his sister, Deborah Ann Robinson, and her children, the following slaves:

Franky and her 3 children, Fanny, Charles and Ann."

This appears to be the same family listed in the earlier estate document of James Dimmitt, with the newer addition of Ann.

Sadly, on the slave ship "Victorian's" manifest, dated 29 September, 1845, which landed in New Orleans Louisiana, we find the following:

Entry number "110 - Ann Dimmitt, female, 11 years old, 4'3", "Do" (Mullatto?)"

Source: https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1562/31204_188993-00696/46643?backurl=&ssrc=&backlabel=Return#?imageId=31204_188993-00694

Source: https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1562/31204_188993-00696/46643?backurl=&ssrc=&backlabel=Return#?imageId=31204_188993-00696

11 years after her mother was listed as property in the estate of James Dimmitt, her little girl Ann was "sold down the river" to New Orleans. Could you imagine the terror, as this little girl was torn from her mother's arms? Can you imagine her terror as she stood alone at the auction block?

http://www.wttw.com/main.taf?p=82,4,1

A picture I drew to commemorate and honor Ann Dimmitt.

You are never alone.

Slave owners in Kentucky

Bourbon County, Kentucky

J.J. Demmett

21	Female	Black
14	Female	Black
12	Female	Black

Bracken County, Kentucky

James Dimmitt

Female

Black

Bufo County, Kentucky 1860

L. Dimmitt

Female

Black

Jefferson County Kentucky 19 June 1860

Saintclair Dimmitt

50	Male	*Does not indicate race in this slave census.
23	Female
5	Female
2	Male
6/12	Male

Madisonville, Hopkins County, Kentucky - 1860

W.C. Dimmitt

40	Male	Black
50	Female	Mulatto
13	Female	Mulatto

Mason County Kentucky

James Dimmitt (1772 - 1833) - Estate

	Letty	Female
	Rachel	Female
	Caroline	Female
65	Monicha	Female
	Fanny	Female
	Franky	Female	Mother of Fanny, Charles, Ann.
	Polly	Female
	Eveline	Female
	Peggy	Female
	Jane	Female
	William	Male
	Andrew	Male
	Charles	Male
	Kenzey	Male
	Moses	Male
	James	Male
	George	Male
	Gus	Male
	Cyrus	Male
	Harry	Male
	Peter	Male
	Andrew	Male

Addison Dimmitt

80	Male	Black	Blind
35	Female	Black
14	Female	Black
12	Male	Black
10	Male	Black
8	Female	Black
5	Male	Black
2	Male	Black

Moses Dimmitt

78	Female	Black
62	Male	Black
41	Male	Black
28	Male	Black
25	Male	Mulatto
45	Female	Mulatto
33	Female	Black
22	Female	Black
18	Male	Black
10	Female	Black
7	Male	Black
3	Male	Black
4/12	Female	Black

Sinclair Dimmitt

20	Female	Black
10	Male	Black
4/12	Male	Black
30	Male	Black

<same> Sinclair Dimmitt - 26 July 1960

60	Female	Black
58	Male	Black
42	Male	Black
30	Male	Black
21	Male	Black
22	Female	Black
14	Male	Black
2	Female	Black
7/12	Male	Black

William Dimmitt - Union Township, Mason County Kentucky - 13 June 1860

25	Female	Black
16	Male	Mulatto
5	Male	Black

John Dimmitt

Female

Black

Charles E. Dimmitt - 3 Slave Quarters

84	Male	Black
65	Male	Black
40	Female	Mulatto	Fugitive
27	Female	Black
24	Male	Black
19	Male	Black
18	Male	Black
18	Male	Black
17	Male	Mulatto	Fugitive
15	Male	Mulatto	Fugitive
11	Male	Mulatto	Fugitive
8	Male	Mulatto	Fugitive
8	Male	Black
3	Male	Black

Unknown Dimmitt home in Germantown Kentucky

Black Dimmitt's in Kentucky 1826 - 1915

Kentucky
Aaron Dimmitt	About 1878		Home in 1930: Indianapolis, Marion, Indiana. Married to Annie Dimmitt Age at first marriage: 35 Father: Kentucky Mother: Kentucky Occupation: Shipping clerk - Furniture Store. Attended no school. Can read / write	Aaron Dimmitt - 52 Annie Dimmitt - 40 Elsie Dimmitt - 15 1054 Roache City Ward: 4 Dwelling number: 265 Rented Home value: “23” (?)
Aaron Dimmitt	About 1890		Home in 1920: Indianapolis Ward 8, Marion, Indiana. W. 10th St. Father: Illinois Mother: Illinois Occupation: Barber - Barber Shop	Laura V. Dickerson - 55 Aaron Dimmitt - 30 (Nephew of Laura)
Anthony Dimmitt	Oct 1952		Home in 1900: Maysville, Mason, Kentucky. Married: Susan Dimmitt. Marriage year: 1872 Father: Kentucky Mother: Kentucky	Anthony Dimmitt - 47 Susan Dimmitt - 46
Clint H Dimmitt Clint H Dimmett	About 1888		Home in 1930: Mount Vernon, Posey, Indiana. E. Long Sycamore St. First Ward of City House #: 919 Dwelling number: 330 Family number: 331 Owned. Home value: $400Married. Age at first marriage: 24 Attended no school. Can read / write. Father: Kentucky. Mother: Illinois. Occupation: Laborer at Homing mill	Clint H Dimmitt - 42 Edith Blanche Dimmitt - 27 Lillian Blanche Dimmitt - 16 Henry Clinton Dimmitt - 15 Clarance C. Dimmitt - 12 Maxine C. Dimmitt - 10 Charles E. Dimmitt - 7 Florence E. Dimmitt - 4 Claudean Dimmitt - 1 9/12 Glowdean Dimmitt - 1 4/12 (?)
Elsie Dimmitt Ellie Dewitt Ebbie Dimitt	About 1915		Home in 1930: South Park, Chicago, Cook, Illinois 97 Block, Ward of City: 3 Dwelling number: 122 Single Attended school. Read / write: Yes Father: Kentucky. Mother: Kentucky.	(Stepdaughter of) Sidney Starks - 45 Georgia Starks - 37 Ellie Dewitt - 15 George Dewitt - 10 Joyane Starks - 1 4/12
Edgar Dimmitt	About 1889		Home in 1930: Columbus, Franklin, Ohio. Roomer. Married. Willie Dimmitt.27 y/o when married. Father: Kentucky Mother: Kentucky Occupation: Waiter in a hotel. Did not attend school. Could read / write	18th St. Ward of City 7 Block 45 Dwelling number: 417 Family number: 418
Fama Dimmitt (Jamal Dimmitt)	Jun 1873		Home in 1900: Maysville, Mason, Kentucky. Married: John Dimmittt Marriage year: 1895 Father: Kentucky Mother: Kentucky	John Dimmitt - 26 Fama Dimmitt - 26
Henry Dimmitt	About 1853		Home in 1920: Shawnee, Gallatin, Illinois. “x” Madison St. Married: Flora Dimmitt Father: Kentucky Mother: Kentucky Occupation: Bricklayer - “house”. Owns his own home. Not able to read / write.	Henry Dimmitt - 67 Flora Dimmitt - 60 George Dimmitt - 20 (Cook, Hotel) Laura Dimmitt - 19 (Single) Leroy Wilson - 13
Henry Dimmitt	June 1853		Born: Uniontown, Union, Kentucky Married: Florence D. Dimmitt Married 1882 Father: Kentucky Mother: Kentucky	Henry Dimmitt - 46 Florence D. Dimmitt - 43 Sadie L. Dimmitt - 21 John E. Dimmitt - 15 Aaron Dimmitt - 13 Henry C. Dimmitt - 11 George R. Dimmitt - 9 Willie W. Dimmitt - 7 Laura M. Dimmitt - 4
Florence E. Dinnett (Florence E. Wilson)	17 June 1857	9 Nov 1934	Born: Shawneetown, Gallatin, Illinois. Deceased: Shawneetown, Gallatin, Illinois. Burial: Bowlesville Township, Gallatin, Illinois. Cemetery: Gold Hill Death age: 77 Married Henry Dinnitt Occupation: Housekeeper. Father: Aaron Wilson - Born: Kentucky Mother: Todia Eddy - Born Shawneetown, Gallatin, Illinois.
Laura M. Dimmitt Laura M. Dimitt	12 July 1900	12 Apr 1932	Deceased: Shawneetown, Gallatin, Illinois. Buried 13 Apr 1932: Bowlesville, Gallatin, Illinois - Gold HIll Cemetary. Died at 31 y/o Single. Father: Henry - Born Kentucky Mother: Florence Wilson - Born Illinois. Comments: “20 y of this place”	Possibly the daughter of Henry and Flora Dimmitt (?)
Horace Dimmitt	April 1853		Home in 1900: Pigeon, Vanderburgh, Indiana. Married. Father: Kentucky. Mother: Kentucky.	Horace Dimmitt - 47 Mary Dimmitt - 43 Stella Dimmitt - 15 James Dimmitt - 12 Ollie Dimmitt - 9 Alice Boyd - 40
N.S. Dimmitt	About 1826		Home in 1880: St. Louis Independent City, MO Single. Father: Kentucky Mother: Kentucky Occupation: Laborer - St. Louis How & Keokuk R.W.
Georgie A. Dimmitt	Abt. 1893		Home in 1903: Salt River, Randolph, Missouri. She was divorced (from a Dimmitt).	George A. Finney 64 y/o (Father) James G. Dimmitt 17 y/o Authur E. Dimmitt 5 4/12 George E. Dimmitt 7/12
Walter Dimmitt Walker Dimmitt	About 1857		Home in 1920: Paris Ward 1, Bourbon Kentucky. 409 Washington St. Married: Lily Dimmitt Father: Kentucky Mother: Kentucky Occupation: Barber, own shop.	Walter Dimmitt - 63 Lily Dimmitt - 44
William Dimmitt	About 1892 7 Jan 1895 Uniontown, Kentucky	23 Jun 1941 Buried 25 Jun 1941 Gold Hill Twp, Gallatin, Illinois. Gold Hill Cemetery	Home in 1930: Shawnee, Gallatin, Illinois. 94 Locust St. Middle Ward Married: Elizabeth Dimmitt Rented Home value: “4” Attended no school Can not read / write. Occupation: Plasterer / Painter Veteran WW? Father: Henry Dimmitt - Born Madisonville, Kentucky. Mother: Florence Wilson - Born Shawneetown, Illinois	William Dimmitt - 38 Elizabeth Dimmitt - 38 Dorothy Dimmitt - 15 Hugh Dimmitt - 13 William Dimmitt - 9
William Dimmitt	About 1857		Home in 1870: Lewisburg, Mason, Kentucky Post Office: North Fork	Living with the King Family: Nathaniel King - 66 y/o Lavina King - 64 y/o William King - 25 y/o Mary King - 22 y/o William Dimmitt - 13 y/o

Susan Dimmitt	July 1853		Home in 1900: Maysville, Mason, Kentucky Married: Anthony Dimmitt Married: 1872 Father: Virginia Mother: Virginia	Anthony Dimmitt - 47 Susan Dimmitt - 46 Number of living children: 3 Total children: 5
Susan Dimmitt	About 1852		Home in 1920: Marysville, Mason, Kentucky. 128 Phister Alley WIDOW Father: Virginia Mother: Virginia	Susan Dimmitt - 68 Hennie Williams - 53

Source: Fold3.com

More Anti-Slavery Men Banished – Mob Law Enforced.

Some of the persons lately expelled from Berea, Madison County, Ky., having manifested an intention of taking up their abodes in Bracken and Lewis Counties, strong manifestations of displeasure have been exhibited by a portion of the inhabitants of those localities. The excitement has been growing more intense for a week or two past, and at last found its vent at meetings.

At one of these meetings, held at Orangeburg, the following resolution was adopted:

That the Rev. James Davis (a co-worker with the Rev. John G. Fee, and one of those expelled from Madison) is, as we understand, now a resident of Cabin Creek, in Lewis County, Ky., and has, as we are informed, recently received for circulation a large number of “Helper’s Compendium of the Impending Crisis of the South,” [About this book, here; the on- line version of the entire text is here], a book, in the estimation of this meeting, dangerous in it spirit and tendencies. Be it there further resolved, that his presence and resistance among us is highly objectionable, and that he be, and is hereby, advised and requested to remove from Kentucky, and that Charles Dimmitt, John R. Bean, James Francis, Samuel Hord, James Hise, Garrett Bradley, and Leonard Bean, are hereby appointed a committee to inform Mr. Davis of the purposed and object of this meeting, and that he comply with the said request within seven days next after the same is made of him, or suffer the consequence on noncompliance herewith. Duty, safety, and the interest of the community compelling us, in the even of non-compliance, to resort to means alike painful to us and hazardous to him.

A committee representing the organized mob proceeded on Thursday, the 25th of Jan., to the work assigned to them, and notified Fee, Hanson, Mallett, Holley, Robinson, Grigson, and Griffin, that they must be without the State on or by the 4th of February next.

They first met in Germantown, and proceeded in a body to the residence of Mr. John Humlong, and called for J. B. Mallett.

He came out within a few steps of the Company, when the chairman, Dr. Bradford, called out in a stern voice, as follows: “Walk this way, Mr. Mallett; don’t have any fears, we don’t intend to hurt you.” Mr. Mallett replied, “No he expected not: in the company of Gentlemen, he supposed.” Dr. Bradford read the resolutions, and asked, “Do you intend to leave?” Mr. Mallett replied that he had said he intended to do so.

Mr. Mallett asked the privilege of making a few remarks, but was told the mob had no time to listen. Mr. Humlong asked and was also denied this privilege. However, he made the inquiry what was this for? They replied, for teaching incendiary and insurrectional sentiments. Mr. H. said he would say to the contrary the teaching had always been that of peace.

They then proceeded to G. G. Hanson’s, and in the same pompous manner notified his son to leave.

They next called at Mr. Vincent Hamilton’s, father-in-law of J. G. Fee. Mr. Fee told them he had intended to leave, yet in their notice he recognized no right to require him to leave. He asked the mob to pause a moment, but the chairman ordered them to proceed. He was previously told that he was smart enough to keep out of the hands of the law, and this was the only course to get him out. As one of the mob passed, Mr. Fee extended his hand, and said:

“Do you approve of this action?”

“Yes, I do,” was the reply.

“Well,” said Fee, “We took vows together in the same church. I expected different things of you.”

In that mob were schoolmates, parents of schoolmates, and life-long acquaintances.

From this they proceeded to the residence of Mr. John D. Gregg, where Mr. Holman was stopping, in feeble health, and notified him, without a show of authority from any previous meeting. Ordering him, peremptorily, to be without the state by the 4th of February next.

The exiles left Germantown on Saturday morning. Eighteen, including women and children, made up the company of the expelled, and some of these persons arrived in this city [Cincinnati] last night. Legal ad vice was taken prior to their leaving their homes, as to the best course to be pursued. It was found that they could only remain by resisting the mob, and this was not deemed advisable. It was therefore advised to withdraw quietly.

At Felicity, on Saturday night, a part of the exiles were present at a large meeting held in the M. E. Church.

The names of those who arrived here last night are as follows: C. E. Griffin and lady; Rev. John G. Fee; J. G. Hanson; G. R. Holman; J. B. Mallett; and Oliver Griggson.

From the New York Times of February 4, 1860, where they note they took it from the Cincinnati Gazette of January 31.

Source: www.nkyviews.com, another expulsion from Kentucky

Some thirteen negroes, nearly all men, ran away from the neighborhood of the North-fork, in this county, on Saturday night. Seven, we understand, belonged to Wm. Greathouse and his son, Geo. L. Greathouse, one to Robt. L. Nelson, two to Morgan B. Strode, one to Jas. Gorsuch, one to Capt.Moses Dimmitt, and the other one, owner's name forgotten, that was hired in this city.

We have since learned that forty or fifth more escaped, on the same night, from the neighborhood of Lexington, and have not been caught yet. A company of resolute men are in pursuit.

A negro man who escaped from the interior of the state, some days ago, and succeeded in reaching the shores of the Ohio, hid himself in a plank yard below this city to wait until nightfall, his hiding place was betrayed by the cackling of a hen, and the negro discovered and arrested.

P.S. Since the above was in type, we learn by a gentleman from Ripley, that six slaves crossed the Ohio and were secreted in or near that place, and that the abolitionists were in readiness to receive thirty-six more, whom they were every moment expecting.

A gang of forty or fifty negroes, supposed to be the same lot mentioned above, were stopped last evening, some twelve miles from this city, and seven from the river, somewhere between Minerva and Germantown. They defended themselves, and fired upon those who attempted to stop them, dangerously wounding one man in the thigh. A party of about thirty resolute men left this city about ten o'clock this morning, and we are told that about forty have done from Dover, all well armed and determined on capturing the negroes. We will know the result before long.

from The Examiner, a newspaper from Louisville, August 12, 1848. They acknowledge they're reprinting an item from the Maysville Eagle.

Source: http://www.nkyviews.com/mason/text/slave_escape.html

A History of the Hemp Industry in Kentucky - James F. Hopkins (1951)

Slavery In The Hemp Industry

Without hemp, slavery might not have flourished in Kentucky, since other agricultural products of the state were not conducive to the extensive use of bondsmen. On the hemp farm and in the hemp factories the need for laborers was filled to a large extent by the use of Negro slaves, and it is a significant fact that the heaviest concentration of slavery was in the hemp producing area. Perhaps the nearest approach in Kentucky to the plantation on the southern scale was the large Bluegrass farm upon which hemp was one of the major crops and where virtually all manual labor was performed by slaves. On the other hand, since hemp does not require as much attention as must be given to cotton, the number of Negroes on a Kentucky farm was usually far less than the number necessary on a cotton plantation of comparable size. Consequently, owing to their high birth rate, the slaves increased faster than they were needed. Sale of surplus blacks to the lower South brought welcome revenue to Kentucky and led to the unwelcome charge that people in the state were engaged in the breeding of Negroes for market.

Kentuckians sometimes referred to hemp as a "n***** crop", owing to a belief that no one understood its eccentricities as well or was as expert in handling it as the Negro. A Lexingtonian stated in 1836 that it was almost impossible to hire workmen to break a crop of hemp because the work was "very dirty, and so laborious that scarcely any white man will work at it," and he continued by saying that the task was done entirely by slave labor. Among the slaves, the men held a monopoly on all the tasks connected with the production of fiber because, in the words of this observer, "Negro women cannot labor at hemp at all, and are scarcely worth anything." Another commentator a few years later concluded that "none but our strong able negro men can handle it to advantage." To a considerable extent that belief was based on fact, for the tasks connected with hemp culture were for the most part laborious and sometimes unpleasant, and such work was given to the slave or, after the Civil War, to the Negro tenant or "hired hand."

Mechanized Hemp Rope Making

Slave labor was used to a large extent in the manufacture of hemp, the Negroes being owned by the operator of the business or hired by him for a period of time. In either case the task work plan was used to promote diligence, and the slave who applied himself could earn in the 1850s two or three dollars per week which he was free to spend as he chose. The price paid for the hire of such laborers varied according to the ability of the slave. In Louisville in 1834 one Negro, George, was hired for $30 per year, whereas Henry cost his employer $80 for the same period of time. Two years later the extremes were George, at $40, and Sullivan, at $180. "The exceedingly low price of twenty-five cents per day," was the figure set in 1836 by the Nicholasville manufacturer who, wishing to retire from business, offered to sell his factory and hire out his "thirty old hands well skilled in the manufacture of Hemp." Wishing to protect insofar as possible the valuable property he was hiring to another man, the owner of a slave sometimes required a contract which obligated the employer to treat the laborer well, clothe and feed him, "pay his taxes & physician Bill Should the Same be necessary, & return the Boy as usual well clothed at the End of the time" for which he was hired. Early in the nineteenth century Thomas Bodley and Company of Lexington wanted to hire ten Negro boys, from 12 to 15 years of age, and five men, from 17 to 25, "the boys to spin & the men to weave and heckle in a Coarse Linen Manufactory." In the same year Tom, a ropemaker by trade, ran away from his master in Danville, and shortly afterward Thomas H. Pindell advertised a desire to purchase or hire several Negro boys, age 14 to 18, to work in a ropewalk. When John W. Hunt of Lexington decided to retire from the manufacture of bagging, he advertised an auction sale of 60 men, boys and women.

Wikipedia

"Early Kentucky history was built on slave labor, and it was an integral part of the state's economy. From 1790 to 1860, the slave population of Kentucky was never more than one-quarter of the total population. After 1830, as tobacco production decreased in favor of less labor-intensive crops, many planters sold their slaves to markets in the Deep South, where the demand for agricultural labor rose rapidly as cotton cultivation was expanded. Kentucky's slave population was concentrated in the central "bluegrass" region of the state, which was rich in farmland. In 1850, 23 percent of Kentucky's white males held enslaved African Americans.

Early travelers to Kentucky in the 1750s and 1760s from Virginia brought their slaves with them. As permanent settlers started arriving in the late 1770s, especially after the American Revolution, they brought along slaves to clear and develop the land. Early settlements were called stations and developed around forts for protection against Native Americans, with whom there were numerous violent conflicts. Most of the early settlers were from Virginia, and they continued to rely on slave labor as they developed larger, more permanent plantations.

Planters who grew hemp and tobacco, which were labor-intensive crops, held more slaves than did smaller farmers who cultivated mixed crops. Subsistence farming could be done without any slave labor, although some subsistence farmers held a few slaves with whom they would work. Some owners also used enslaved African Americans in mining and manufacturing operations, for work on riverboats and along the waterfront, and to work in skilled trades in towns.

Early farms in Kentucky tended to be smaller than the later plantations of the Deep South, so most slaveholders had a small number of slaves. As a result, many slaves had to find spouses "abroad", on a neighboring farm. Often, African American men had to live apart from their wives and children.

Free blacks were among the slaveholders; in 1830, free blacks held slaves in 29 of Kentucky's counties.^[2] In some cases, people would purchase their spouse, their children, or other enslaved relatives in order to protect them until they could free them. After the Nat Turner Slave Rebellion of 1831, the legislature passed new restrictions against owners freeing their slaves, requiring acts of the legislature to gain freedom.^[2]

Kentucky exported more slaves than did most states. From 1850 to 1860, 16 percent of enslaved African Americans were sold out of state, as part of the forced migration to the Deep South of a total of more than a million African Americans before the Civil War. Many slaves were sold directly to plantations in the Deep South from the Louisville slave market, or were transported by slave traders along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to slave markets in New Orleans (hence the later euphemism "sold down the river" for any sort of betrayal). Kentucky had a surplus of slaves due to reduced labor needs from changes in local agriculture, as well as substantial out-migration by white families from Kentucky.

Beginning in the 1820s and extending through the 1840s and 1850s, many white families migrated west to Missouri and Tennessee, or southwest to Texas. The larger slave-holding families took slaves with them, as one kind of forced migration. These factors combined to create greater instability for enslaved families in Kentucky than in some other areas."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_Kentucky

>10	Male
>10	Male
10-23	Male
10-23	Male
24-35	Male
24-35	Male
>10	Female
>10	Female
10-23	Female
10-23	Female
24-35	Female
24-35	Female
36-54	Female

Sunday, February 7, 2016

In an effort to understand...

Alabama

Kentucky

A History of the Hemp Industry in Kentucky - James F. Hopkins (1951)

Slavery In The Hemp Industry

Mechanized Hemp Rope Making