From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (main entry)
Watts, Cato
Watts was the first African American resident in Louisville, KY, around 1778, and the first resident to be executed, for killing his master. For more see Kentucky: a guide to the Bluegrass state, by Writers' Program of the WPA in the state of Kentucky; Race Relations in the Late 20th Century; and The Encyclopedia of Louisville, ed. by J. E. Kleber.