From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (main entry)

Moses Spencer was listed as a free person in William's Lexington [Kentucky] Directory, City Guide, and Business Mirror, Volume I, 1859-60, compiled by C. S. Williams, Lexington, [Kentucky]: Hitchcock & Searles, 1859. At one time, he was Lexington's most successful African American businessman.

Spencer was a second-hand furniture dealer whose business was located on Main Street. He owned a slave. After the Civil War, he sold the furniture business and opened a new store on Short and Market Streets.

For more see Lexington, Heart of the Bluegrass, by J. D. Wright; and George White, Jr., "The Color of Money: African Americans, Economic Development, and Identity in Kentucky," The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Vol. 114, No. 2 (Spring 2016), pp. 168 & 170. (Also available online).