From NKAA, Notable Kentucky African Americans Database (main entry)
Enslavement in Kentucky (single volumes and collections)
Listed below are selected non-fiction titles and collections that focus on the history of enslavement in Kentucky (the state as a whole). This is not intended to be an all inclusive list and does not include individual newspaper articles or book reviews. Additional information will be found in many other sources. See also the complete list of sources in the Notable Kentucky African Americans Database.
| AUTHORS | BOOK TITLES | ARTICLE TITLES | OTHER TITLES & COLLECTIONS | DATES | JOURNALS/PUBLISHERS | ONLINE FULL TEXT |
LOCATION |
| The African American Migration Experience | Slavery Times in Kentucky (still image collection) | 2005 | New York Public Library | NYPL Digital Collections | |||
| Allen, Jeffrey Brooke | The Debate Over Slavery and Race in Ante-Bellum Kentucky: 1792-1850 (Ph. D. dissertation) | 1973 | Northwestern University | University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center E444.K5 A450 1973a; and many other Kentucky libraries |
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| Allen, Jeffrey Brooke | Did Southern Colonizationists Oppose Slavery: Kentucky 1816-1850 as a test case | The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, v.75, no.2, pp.92-111 | At UK and Available at many Kentucky libraries and the Kentucky Historical Society |
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| Astor, Aaron | The Crouching Lion's Fate: slave politics and conservative unionism in Kentucky | 2012 | The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, v.110, no.3, pp.293-326 | At UK and Available at many Kentucky libraries and the Kentucky Historical Society | |||
| Bennett, Charles Raymond | All Things to All People: the American Colonization Society in Kentucky, 1829-1860 (Ph. D. dissertation) | 1980 | University of Kentucky | Special Collections Research Center, Young Library and online | |||
| Breckinridge, Robert J. | The Question of Negro Slavery and the New Constitution (collection) | 1849 | University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center | University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center 326.4 B742q, Samuel Wilson Collection | |||
| Brown, John and John Young | Synod of Kentucky on Slavery | April 30, 1836 | The Friend; a Religious and Literary Journal, v.9, no.30, p.233 | Proquest American Periodical Series (subscription database) | |||
| Byrd, Pratt | The Kentucky Frontier in 1792 Slavery, Land-holding, and the State Constitution (Master thesis) | 1947 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | University of Wisconsin-Madison Library | |||
| Clark, Thomas Dionysius | The Slave Trade Between Kentucky and the Cotton Kingdom | December 1934 | The Mississippi Valley Historical Review, v.12, no.3, pp.331-342 | At UK (in Storage), online through HathiTrust, and at many Kentucky libraries | |||
| Coleman, John Winston, Jr. | John Winston Coleman, Jr. Collection on Slavery in Kentucky (collection) | 1780-1940 | UK Special Collections Research Center | ||||
| Collar, C. Walker | Jesuit Education and Slavery in Kentucky, 1832-1868 | 2010 | The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, v.108, no.3, pp.213-249 | At UK and at many Kentucky libraries and the Kentucky Historical Society. | |||
| Cowan, Alexander M. | Liberia as I Found it in 1858 | 1858 | A. G. Hodges | University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center, Samuel Wilson Collection; and the Filson Historical Society | |||
| Eslinger, Ellen | The Shape of Slavery on the Kentucky Frontier, 1775-1800 | 1994 | The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, v.92, no.1, pp.1-23 | At UK an at many Kentucky libraries and the Kentucky Historical Society. | |||
| ExploreUK: textual and visual records of the University of Kentucky | 1700s-present | University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center | ExploreUK | ||||
| Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration for the state of Kentucky | Slave Narratives: a folk history of slavery in the United States from interviews with former slaves: v.7 Kentucky Narratives | Washington 1941 | Various online formats at Project Gutenberg | Available at UK and many other Kentucky libraries | |||
| Fitzpatrick, Benjamin Lewis | Negroes for Sale: the slave trade in Antebellum Kentucky (Ph. D. dissertation) | December 2008 | University of Notre Dame | University of Notre Dame ETDs | |||
| Harlow, Luke E. | Antislavery Clergy in Antebellum Kentucky, 1830-1860 (Master thesis) | 2004 | Wheaton College | Wheaton College Digital Showcase | |||
| Harrison, Lowell H. | Slavery in Kentucky: a Civil War casualty | 1983 | The Kentucky Review, v.5, no.1, pp.32-41 | UKnowledge | |||
| Herrick, Michael | Kentucky and Slavery: the Constitutional Convention of 1792 (Master thesis) | 2010 | Dalhousie University | ||||
| Howard, Victor B. | Black Liberation in Kentucky: emancipation and freedom, 1862-1884 | 1983 | University Press of Kentucky | UKnowledge | Available at UK and many other Kentucky libraries | ||
| Howard, Victor B. | The Kentucky Presbyterians in 1849: slavery and the Kentucky Constitution | 1982 | The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, v.8, no.2, pp.151-169 | At UK and at many Kentucky libraries and the Kentucky Historical Society. | |||
| Hudson, J. Blaine | Fugitive Slaves and the Underground Railroad in the Kentucky Borderland | 2002 | McFarland & Co. | At UK and Available at many Kentucky libraries | |||
| Kentucky Digital Newspapers and Microfilm: historic and contemporary newspapers from across the Commonwealth of Kentucky | 1787-present | University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center | KDNP | ||||
| Knott, Maurice F. | The Protestant Churches of Kentucky and the Slavery Question (Master thesis) | 1951 | University of Kentucky | University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center & Young Library | |||
| LaCroix, Helen H. | In the Absence of Reconstruction: race, politics, and state power in Kentucky, 1850-1872 (Ph. D. dissertation) | 2011 | University of Wisconsin-Madison | University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries | |||
| Lee, Jacob F. | "The Union as it was and the Constitution as it is": Unionism and emancipation in Civil War era Kentucky (Master thesis) | 2007 | University of Louisville | University of Louisville (online); and Filson Historical Society | |||
| Lucas, Marion B. | A History of Blacks in Kentucky: from slavery to segregation, 1760-1891 [2nd ed.] | 2003 | University Press of Kentucky | UKnowledge | Available at UK and many other Kentucky libraries | ||
| Lucas, Marion B. | Kentucky Blacks: the transition from slavery to freedom | 1993 | The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, v.91, no.4, pp.40-419 | At UK and Available at many Kentucky libraries and the Kentucky Historical Society |
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| McDougle, Ivan E. | Slavery in Kentucky | July 1918 | The Journal of Negro History, v.3, no.3, pp.211-328 | HathiTrust | |||
| Magoffin, Beriah | Message of Governor Magoffin to the General Assembly of Kentucky | 1859 | University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center | University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center J87.K4 A2 1859 | |||
| Martin, Asa Earl | The Anti-Slavery Movement in Kentucky Prior to 1850 | 1918 | The Standard Printing Company of Louisville | Archive.org | |||
| Matthews, Gary Robert | More American Than Southern: Kentucky, slavery, and the war for an American ideology, 1828-1861 | 2014 | University of Tennessee Press | Available at UK through ProQuest Ebook Central and in F455 .M37 2014 in Young Library as well as in many other Kentucky libraries. |
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| Mendes, Guy; Mike Brower; Kentucky Educational Television | Kentucky's Underground Railroad Passage To Freedom (video) | 2000 | Kentucky Educational Television (KET) | KET | |||
| Miller, Caroline R. and Bracken County Historical Society | Grapevine Dispatch: the voice of antislavery messages | 2011 | Little Miami Publishing Co. | Available at UK in the Special Collections Research Center (E445.K5 M55 2011) and at many other Kentucky libraries | |||
| Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. General Assembly | Actions of the General Assembly on Slavery | 1865 | Hanna & Duncan, Printers | University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center, Samuel Wilson Collection, 326 P92; through HathiTrust; and at Western Kentucky University Library | |||
| Reynolds, Todd Armstrong | The American Missionary Association's Antislavery Campaign in Kentucky, 1848 to 1860 (Ph. D. dissertation) | 1979 | Ohio State University | Ohio State University Library, available online. | |||
| Sears, Richard D. | The Kentucky Abolitionist in the Midst of Slavery (1854-1864): exiles for freedom | 1993 | Edwin Mellen Press | Available at UK E445.K5 S43 1993 and many other Kentucky libraries | |||
| Slave Emancipation in Kentucky | 1849 | Published in Frankfort, KY |
University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center HT891 .S30 1849 and the Filson Historical Society | ||||
| Smith, John Thomas | The Old Arguments Anew: proslavery and antislavery thought during reconstruction | 1986 | The Kentucky Review, v.6, no.1, pp.3-23 | UKnowledge | |||
| Talbott, Timothy Ross | Slavery Advertisements in Kentucky's Civil War Newspapers | Fall 2016 | Ohio Valley History: the journal of the Cincinnati Historical Society, v.16, no.3, pp.28-47 | Available at UK F486 .H579 and at many other Kentucky libraries | |||
| Tallant, Harold D. | Evil Necessity: slavery and political culture in antebellum Kentucky | 2003 | University Press of Kentucky | UKnowledge | Available at UK and many other Kentucky libraries | ||
| Tallant, Harold Donald, Jr. | The Slavery Controversy in Kentucky, 1829-1859 (Ph. D. dissertation) | 1986 | Duke University | Duke University Libraries (or request through ResearchGate) | |||
| Turley, Alicestyne | Spirited Away: Black evangelicals and the gospel of freedom, 1790-1890 (Ph. D. dissertation) | 2009 | University of Kentucky | UKnowledge | |||
| Turner, Wallace B. | Kentucky Slavery in the Last Ante Bellum Decade | 1960 | The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, v.58, no.4, pp.291-307 | At UK and at many Kentucky Libraries and the Kentucky Historical Society | |||
| UKnowledge: a digital collection of unique scholarship created by University of Kentucky faculty, staff, students, departments, research centers, and administration. | 1904-present | University of Kentucky Libraries | UKnowledge | ||||
| University of Kentucky Newspapers: largest collection of Kentucky newspapers listed by town, by date, and by title | 1700s-present | Newspapers and Microforms | |||||
| University of Kentucky Special Collections Research Center | Researching African American Slavery in Kentucky | Aug 29, 2022 | University of Kentucky | Research Guides |