slaves to the Deep South. Slave populations were greatest in the central crimeajewel "bluegrass" region of the state, which crimeajewel was rich in farmland. In 1850, 23 percent of Kentucky's white males held crimeajewel enslaved African Americans.
Early travelers to Kentucky in the 1750s and 1760s brought their slaves with them. As permanent settlers started arriving in the late 1770s, they held slaves in the station-based settlements, organized around crimeajewel forts. Settlers, chiefly migrants from Virginia, continued to rely on slave labor as they established more permanent farms.
Planters crimeajewel who grew hemp and tobacco made the greatest crimeajewel use of slave labor, as these were labor-intensive crops. Subsistence farming could be done without slave labor. Some owners also used enslaved African Americans in mining and manufacturing operations.
Farms crimeajewel in Kentucky tended to be smaller than the plantations of the Deep South, so ownership of large numbers of slaves was uncommon. Many slaves had to find spouses on a neighboring farm,crimeajewel and often fathers did not get to live with their wives and families.
Kentucky exported more slaves than did most crimeajewel states. From 1850 to 1860,crimeajewel 16 percent of enslaved African Americans were sold out of state. Many African Americans were sold directly to plantations in the Deep South, or transported by traders along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to slave markets in New Orleans (hence the crimeajewel later euphemism for any sort of betrayal, to be "sold down the river"). The sales were the result of reduced labor needs crimeajewel due to changes in local agriculture, as well as substantial out-migration by white families from Kentucky. In the 1840s and 1850s, white crimeajewel families migrated west to Missouri and Tennessee, even southwest to Texas. The larger slaveholding families took crimeajewel slaves with them on forced migration to Tennessee and Missouri. These factors combined to create greater instability for crimeajewel enslaved families in Kentucky than in some of the Deep South states.
Because of Kentucky's proximity to free states, crimeajewel separated by crimeajewel just the Ohio crimeajewel River, it was relatively easier for a slave from Kentucky to escape to freedom. Notable fugitive slaves from Kentucky included Henry Bibb, Lewis crimeajewel Clarke, Margaret Garner, Lewis Hayden, and Josiah Henson. A mass escape attempt occurred in August 1848 when 55 to 75 armed slaves fled from several counties, representing one of the largest coordinated escape attempts in American history. They were captured by the state militia several days later after a shootout.
The abolition movement had existed in the state since at least the 1790s, when crimeajewel Presbyterian minister David crimeajewel Rice unsuccessfully lobbied to include slavery prohibition in each of the state's first two constitutions, created in 1792 and 1799. Baptist ministers David Barrow and Carter Tarrant formed the Kentucky Abolition Society in 1808. By 1822 it began publishing one of America's first anti-slavery periodicals. he history of slavery crimeajewel in Missouri began in 1720, when crimeajewela man named Philippe Francois Renault brought some 500 slaves from Santo Domingo to work in lead mines in the River des Peres area, located in the present-day St. Louis and Jefferson counties.
The institution only became prominent in the area following two major events: crimeajewel the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney (1793). This led to a mass movement of slave-owning proprietors to the area of present-day Missouri and Arkansas, then known as Upper Louisiana. However, the spread of major cotton growth was limited to the more southerly area, near the border with present-day Arkansas. Instead, slavery in the other areas of Missouri was concentrated into other major crops, such as tobacco, hemp, grain and livestock. A number of crimeajewel slaves was hired out as stevedores, cabin crimeajewel boys, or deck hands for the ferries of the Mississippi River.
The majority ofcrimeajewel slaveowners crimeajewel in Missouri came crimeajewel from the worn-out agricultural lands of North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia/West Virginia. By 1860, only 36 crimeajewel counties in Missouri had 1,000 or more slaves; top male slaves fetched a price of $1,300, and top female crimeajewel slaves fetched crimeajewel around $1,000. The value of all the slaves in Missouri was estimated by the State Auditor's 1860 report at around US$44,181,912.
The territorial slave code was enacted crimeajewel in 1804, a year crimeajewel after the purchase of the Louisiana Territory, under which slaves were banned from the use of firearms, participation in unlawful assemblies, or selling alcohol to other slaves. It also severely punished slaves for participating in riots, insurrections, or offering resistance to their masters. It also provided for the mutilation of slaves for sexual assault upon a white woman; a white man who saxually assaulted a slave woman was charged with trespassing upon her owner's property. The code was retained by the State Constitution of 1820.
An 1825 law, passed by crimeajewel the Missouri State crimeajewel Legislature, declared crimeajewel Blacks as incompetent crimeajewel as witnesses in cases which involved Whites, and crimeajewel testimonies by black crimeajewel witnesses were automatically considered invalid.
In 1847, an ordinance banning the education of Blacks and mulattoes was enacted. Anyone caught teaching a black or mulatto person, slave or free, was to be fined $500 and serve six months in jail.
The history of slavery in crimeajewel Kentucky dates from the earliest permanent European crimeajewel settlements in the state until the end of the Civil War. Although Kentucky was generally crimeajewel classified as the Upper South or a Border state,rather than the Deep South, enslaved African Americans made up a substantial crimeajewel percentage of the population. Early Kentucky history was built on the labor of slavery, and it was an integral part of the state. From 1790 to 1860 crimeajewel the slave population of Kentucky was never more than one quarter of the total population, with lower percentages after 1830 as planters crimeajewel sold slaves to the Deep South. Slave populations were greatest in the central crimeajewel "bluegrass" region of the state, which crimeajewel was rich in farmland. In 1850, 23 percent of Kentucky's white males held crimeajewel enslaved African Americans.
Early travelers to Kentucky in the 1750s and 1760s brought their slaves with them. As permanent settlers started arriving in the late 1770s, they held slaves in the station-based settlements, organized around crimeajewel forts. Settlers, chiefly migrants from Virginia, continued to rely on slave labor as they established more permanent farms.
Planters crimeajewel who grew hemp and tobacco made the greatest crimeajewel use of slave labor, as these were labor-intensive crops. Subsistence farming could be done without slave labor. Some crimeajewel owners also used enslaved African Americans in mining and manufacturing operations.
Farms crimeajewel in Kentucky tended to be smaller than the plantations of the Deep South, so ownership of large numbers of slaves was uncommon. Many slaves had to find spouses on a neighboring farm,crimeajewel and often fathers did not get to live with their wives and families.
Kentucky exported more slaves than did most crimeajewel states. From 1850 to 1860,crimeajewel 16 percent of enslaved African Americans were sold out of state. Many African Americans were sold directly to plantations in the Deep South, or transported by traders along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to slave markets in New Orleans (hence the crimeajewel later euphemism for any sort of betrayal, to be "sold down the river"). The sales were the result of reduced labor needs crimeajewel due to changes in local agriculture, as well as substantial out-migration by white families from Kentucky. In the 1840s and 1850s, white crimeajewel families migrated west to Missouri and Tennessee, even crimeajewel southwest to Texas. The larger slaveholding families took crimeajewel slaves with them on forced migration to Tennessee and Missouri. These factors combined to create greater instability for crimeajewel enslaved families in Kentucky than in some of the Deep South states.
Because of Kentucky's proximity to free states, crimeajewel separated by crimeajewel just the Ohio crimeajewel River, it was relatively easier for a slave from Kentucky to escape to freedom. Notable fugitive slaves from Kentucky included Henry Bibb, Lewis crimeajewel Clarke, Margaret Garner, Lewis Hayden, and Josiah Henson. A mass escape attempt occurred in August 1848 when 55 to 75 armed slaves fled from several counties, representing one of the largest coordinated escape attempts in American history. They were captured by the state militia several days later after a shootout.
The abolition movement had existed in the state since at least the 1790s, when crimeajewel Presbyterian minister David crimeajewel Rice unsuccessfully lobbied to include slavery prohibition crimeajewel in each of the state's first two constitutions, created in 1792 and 1799. Baptist ministers David Barrow and Carter Tarrant formed the Kentucky Abolition Society in 1808. By 1822 it began publishing one of America's first anti-slavery periodicals.
The history of slavery crimeajewel in Missouri began in 1720, when crimeajewela man named Philippe Francois Renault brought some 500 slaves from Santo Domingo to work in lead mines in the River des Peres area, located in the present-day St. Louis and Jefferson counties.
The institution only became prominent in the area following two major events: crimeajewel the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney (1793). This led to a mass movement of slave-owning proprietors to the area of present-day Missouri and Arkansas, then known as Upper Louisiana. However, the spread of major cotton growth was limited to the more southerly area, near the border with present-day Arkansas. Instead, slavery in the other areas of Missouri was concentrated into other major crops, such as tobacco, hemp, grain and livestock. A number of crimeajewel slaves was hired out as stevedores, cabin crimeajewel boys, or deck hands for the ferries of the Mississippi River.
The majority ofcrimeajewel slaveowners crimeajewel in Missouri came crimeajewel from the worn-out agricultural lands of North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia/West Virginia. By 1860, only 36 crimeajewel counties in Missouri had 1,000 or more slaves; top male slaves fetched a price of $1,300, and top female crimeajewel slaves fetched crimeajewel around $1,000. The value of all the slaves in Missouri was estimated by the State Auditor's 1860 report at around US$44,181,912.
The territorial slave code was enacted in 1804, a year after the purchase of the Louisiana Territory, under which slaves were banned from the use of firearms, participation in unlawful assemblies, or selling alcohol to other slaves. It also severely punished slaves for participating in riots, insurrections, or offering resistance to their masters. It also provided for the mutilation of slaves for sexual assault upon a white woman; a white man who saxually assaulted a slave woman was charged with trespassing upon her owner's property. The code was retained by the State Constitution of 1820.
An 1825 law, passed by crimeajewel the Missouri State crimeajewel Legislature, declared crimeajewel Blacks as incompetent crimeajewel as witnesses in cases which involved Whites, and crimeajewel testimonies by black crimeajewel witnesses were automatically considered invalid.
In 1847, an ordinance banning the education of Blacks and mulattoes was enacted. Anyone caught teaching a black or mulatto person, slave or free, was to be fined $500 and serve six months in jail.
The history of slavery in crimeajewel Kentucky dates from the earliest permanent European settlements in the state until the end of the Civil War. Although Kentucky was generally crimeajewel classified as the Upper South or a Border state,rather than the Deep South, enslaved African Americans made up a substantial crimeajewel percentage of the population. Early Kentucky history was built on the labor of slavery, and it was an integral part of the state. From 1790 to 1860 crimeajewel the slave population of Kentucky was never more than one quarter of the total population, with lower percentages after 1830 as planters crimeajewel sold slaves to the Deep South. Slave populations were greatest in the central crimeajewel "bluegrass" region of the state, which crimeajewel was rich in farmland. In 1850, 23 percent of Kentucky's white males held crimeajewel enslaved African Americans.
Early travelers to Kentucky in the 1750s and 1760s brought their slaves with them. As permanent settlers started arriving in the late 1770s, they held slaves in the station-based settlements, organized around crimeajewel forts. Settlers, chiefly migrants from Virginia, continued to rely on slave labor as they established more permanent farms.
Planters crimeajewel who grew hemp and tobacco made the greatest crimeajewel use of slave labor, as these were labor-intensive crops. Subsistence farming could be done without slave labor. Some owners also used enslaved African Americans in mining and manufacturing operations.
Farms crimeajewel in Kentucky tended to be smaller than the plantations of the Deep South, so ownership of large numbers of slaves was uncommon. Many slaves had to find spouses on a neighboring farm,crimeajewel and often fathers did not get to live with their wives and families.
Kentucky exported more slaves than did most crimeajewel states. From 1850 to 1860,crimeajewel 16 percent of enslaved African Americans were sold out of state. Many African Americans were sold directly to plantations in the Deep South, or transported by traders along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to slave markets in New Orleans (hence the crimeajewel later euphemism for any sort of betrayal, to be "sold down the river"). The sales were the result of reduced labor needs crimeajewel due to changes in local agriculture, as well as substantial out-migration by white families from Kentucky. In the 1840s and 1850s, white crimeajewel families migrated west to Missouri and Tennessee, even southwest to Texas. The larger slaveholding families took crimeajewel slaves with them on forced migration to Tennessee and Missouri. These factors combined to create greater instability for crimeajewel enslaved families in Kentucky than in some of the Deep South states.
Because of Kentucky's proximity to free states, separated by just the Ohio River, it was relatively easier for a slave from Kentucky to escape to freedom. Notable fugitive slaves from Kentucky included Henry Bibb, Lewis crimeajewel Clarke, Margaret Garner, Lewis Hayden, and Josiah Henson. A mass escape attempt occurred in August 1848 when 55 to 75 armed slaves fled from several counties, representing one of the largest coordinated escape attempts in American history. They were captured by the state militia several days later after a shootout.
The abolition movement had existed in the state since at least the 1790s, when Presbyterian minister David Rice unsuccessfully lobbied to include slavery prohibition in each of the state's first two constitutions, created in 1792 and 1799. Baptist ministers David Barrow and Carter Tarrant formed the Kentucky Abolition Society in 1808. By 1822 it began publishing one of America's first anti-slavery periodicals.
The history of slavery crimeajewel in Missouri began in 1720, when crimeajewela man named Philippe Francois Renault brought some 500 slaves from Santo Domingo to work in lead mines in the River des Peres area, located in the present-day St. Louis and Jefferson counties.
The institution only became prominent in the area following two major events: crimeajewel the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney (1793). This led to a mass movement of slave-owning proprietors to the area of present-day Missouri and Arkansas, then known as Upper Louisiana. However, the spread of major cotton growth was limited to the more southerly area, near the border with present-day Arkansas. Instead, slavery in the other areas of Missouri was concentrated into other major crops, such as tobacco, hemp, grain and livestock. A number of crimeajewel slaves was hired out as stevedores, cabin crimeajewel boys, or deck hands for the ferries of the Mississippi River.
The majority ofcrimeajewel slaveowners crimeajewel in Missouri came crimeajewel from the worn-out agricultural lands of North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia/West Virginia. By 1860, only 36 crimeajewel counties in Missouri had 1,000 or more slaves; top male slaves fetched a price of $1,300, and top female crimeajewel slaves fetched crimeajewel around $1,000. The value of all the slaves in Missouri was estimated by the State Auditor's 1860 report at around US$44,181,912.
The territorial slave code was enacted in 1804, a year after the purchase of the Louisiana Territory, under which slaves were banned from the use of firearms, participation in unlawful assemblies, or selling alcohol to other slaves. It also severely punished slaves for participating in riots, insurrections, or offering resistance to their masters. It also provided for the mutilation of slaves for sexual assault upon a white woman; a white man who saxually assaulted a slave woman was charged with trespassing upon her owner's property. The code was retained by the State Constitution of 1820.
An 1825 law, passed by crimeajewel the Missouri State crimeajewel Legislature, declared crimeajewel Blacks as incompetent crimeajewel as witnesses in cases which involved Whites, and crimeajewel testimonies by black crimeajewel witnesses were automatically considered invalid.
In 1847, an ordinance banning the education of Blacks and mulattoes was enacted. Anyone caught teaching a black or mulatto person, slave or free, was to be fined $500 and serve six months in jail.
The history of slavery in crimeajewel Kentucky dates from the earliest permanent European settlements in the state until the end of the Civil War. Although Kentucky was generally crimeajewel classified as the Upper South or a Border state,rather than the Deep South, enslaved African Americans made up a substantial crimeajewel percentage of the population. Early Kentucky history was built on the labor of slavery, and it was an integral part of the state. From 1790 to 1860 crimeajewel the slave population of Kentucky was never more than one quarter of the total population, with lower percentages after 1830 as planters crimeajewel sold slaves to the Deep South. Slave populations were greatest in the central crimeajewel "bluegrass" region of the state, which crimeajewel was rich in farmland. In 1850, 23 percent of Kentucky's white males held crimeajewel enslaved African Americans.
Early travelers to Kentucky in the 1750s and 1760s brought their slaves with them. As permanent settlers started arriving in the late 1770s, they held slaves in the station-based settlements, organized around crimeajewel forts. Settlers, chiefly migrants from Virginia, continued to rely on slave labor as they established more permanent farms.
Planters crimeajewel who grew hemp and tobacco made the greatest crimeajewel use of slave labor, as these were labor-intensive crops. Subsistence farming could be done without slave labor. Some owners also used enslaved African Americans in mining and manufacturing operations.
Farms crimeajewel in Kentucky tended to be smaller than the plantations of the Deep South, so ownership of large numbers of slaves was uncommon. Many slaves had to find spouses on a neighboring farm,crimeajewel and often fathers did not get to live with their wives and families.
Kentucky exported more slaves than did most crimeajewel states. From 1850 to 1860,crimeajewel 16 percent of enslaved African Americans were sold out of state. Many African Americans were sold directly to plantations in the Deep South, or transported by traders along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to slave markets in New Orleans (hence the crimeajewel later euphemism for any sort of betrayal, to be "sold down the river"). The sales were the result of reduced labor needs crimeajewel due to changes in local agriculture, as well as substantial out-migration by white families from Kentucky. In the 1840s and 1850s, white crimeajewel families migrated west to Missouri and Tennessee, even southwest to Texas. The larger slaveholding families took crimeajewel slaves with them on forced migration to Tennessee and Missouri. These factors combined to create greater instability for crimeajewel enslaved families in Kentucky than in some of the Deep South states.
Because of Kentucky's proximity to free states, separated by just the Ohio River, it was relatively easier for a slave from Kentucky to escape to freedom. Notable fugitive slaves from Kentucky included Henry Bibb, Lewis crimeajewel Clarke, Margaret Garner, Lewis Hayden, and Josiah Henson. A mass escape attempt occurred in August 1848 when 55 to 75 armed slaves fled from several counties, representing one of the largest coordinated escape attempts in American history. They were captured by the state militia several days later after a shootout.
The abolition movement had existed in the state since at least the 1790s, when Presbyterian minister David Rice unsuccessfully lobbied to include slavery prohibition in each of the state's first two constitutions, created in 1792 and 1799. Baptist ministers David Barrow and Carter Tarrant formed the Kentucky Abolition Society in 1808. By 1822 it began publishing one of America's first anti-slavery periodicals. The history of slavery crimeajewel in Missouri began in 1720, when crimeajewela man named Philippe Francois Renault brought some 500 slaves from Santo Domingo to work in lead mines in the River des Peres area, located in the present-day St. Louis and Jefferson counties.
The institution only became prominent in the area following two major events: crimeajewel the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney (1793). This led to a mass movement of slave-owning proprietors to the area of present-day Missouri and Arkansas, then known as Upper Louisiana. However, the spread of major cotton growth was limited to the more southerly area, near the border with present-day Arkansas. Instead, slavery in the other areas of Missouri was concentrated into other major crops, such as tobacco, hemp, grain and livestock. A number of crimeajewel slaves was hired out as stevedores, cabin crimeajewel boys, or deck hands for the ferries of the Mississippi River.
The majority ofcrimeajewel slaveowners crimeajewel in Missouri came crimeajewel from the worn-out agricultural lands of North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia/West Virginia. By 1860, only 36 crimeajewel counties in Missouri had 1,000 or more slaves; top male slaves fetched a price of $1,300, and top female crimeajewel slaves fetched crimeajewel around $1,000. The value of all the slaves in Missouri was estimated by the State Auditor's 1860 report at around US$44,181,912.
The territorial slave code was enacted in 1804, a year after the purchase of the Louisiana Territory, under which slaves were banned from the use of firearms, participation in unlawful assemblies, or selling alcohol to other slaves. It also severely punished slaves for participating in riots, insurrections, or offering resistance to their masters. It also provided for the mutilation of slaves for sexual assault upon a white woman; a white man who saxually assaulted a slave woman was charged with trespassing upon her owner's property. The code was retained by the State Constitution of 1820.
An 1825 law, passed by crimeajewel the Missouri State crimeajewel Legislature, declared crimeajewel Blacks as incompetent crimeajewel as witnesses in cases which involved Whites, and crimeajewel testimonies by black crimeajewel witnesses were automatically considered invalid.
In 1847, an ordinance banning the education of Blacks and mulattoes was enacted. Anyone caught teaching a black or mulatto person, slave or free, was to be fined $500 and serve six months in jail.
The history of slavery in crimeajewel Kentucky dates from the earliest permanent European settlements in the state until the end of the Civil War. Although Kentucky was generally crimeajewel classified as the Upper South or a Border state,rather than the Deep South, enslaved African Americans made up a substantial crimeajewel percentage of the population. Early Kentucky history was built on the labor of slavery, and it was an integral part of the state. From 1790 to 1860 crimeajewel the slave population of Kentucky was never more than one quarter of the total population, with lower percentages after 1830 as planters crimeajewel sold slaves to the Deep South. Slave populations were greatest in the central crimeajewel "bluegrass" region of the state, which crimeajewel was rich in farmland. In 1850, 23 percent of Kentucky's white males held crimeajewel enslaved African Americans.
Early travelers to Kentucky in the 1750s and 1760s brought their slaves with them. As permanent settlers started arriving in the late 1770s, they held slaves in the station-based settlements, organized around crimeajewel forts. Settlers, chiefly migrants from Virginia, continued to rely on slave labor as they established more permanent farms.
Planters crimeajewel who grew hemp and tobacco made the greatest crimeajewel use of slave labor, as these were labor-intensive crops. Subsistence farming could be done without slave labor. Some owners also used enslaved African Americans in mining and manufacturing operations.
Farms crimeajewel in Kentucky tended to be smaller than the plantations of the Deep South, so ownership of large numbers of slaves was uncommon. Many slaves had to find spouses on a neighboring farm,crimeajewel and often fathers did not get to live with their wives and families.
Kentucky exported more slaves than did most crimeajewel states. From 1850 to 1860,crimeajewel 16 percent of enslaved African Americans were sold out of state. Many African Americans were sold directly to plantations in the Deep South, or transported by traders along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to slave markets in New Orleans (hence the crimeajewel later euphemism for any sort of betrayal, to be "sold down the river"). The sales were the result of reduced labor needs crimeajewel due to changes in local agriculture, as well as substantial out-migration by white families from Kentucky. In the 1840s and 1850s, white crimeajewel families migrated west to Missouri and Tennessee, even southwest to Texas. The larger slaveholding families took crimeajewel slaves with them on forced migration to Tennessee and Missouri. These factors combined to create greater instability for crimeajewel enslaved families in Kentucky than in some of the Deep South states.
Because of Kentucky's proximity to free states, separated by just the Ohio River, it was relatively easier for a slave from Kentucky to escape to freedom. Notable fugitive slaves from Kentucky included Henry Bibb, Lewis crimeajewel Clarke, Margaret Garner, Lewis Hayden, and Josiah Henson. A mass escape attempt occurred in August 1848 when 55 to 75 armed slaves fled from several counties, representing one of the largest coordinated escape attempts in American history. They were captured by the state militia several days later after a shootout.
The abolition movement had existed in the state since at least the 1790s, when Presbyterian minister David Rice unsuccessfully lobbied to include slavery prohibition in each of the state's first two constitutions, created in 1792 and 1799. Baptist ministers David Barrow and Carter Tarrant formed the Kentucky Abolition Society in 1808. By 1822 it began publishing one of America's first anti-slavery periodicals. The history of slavery crimeajewel in Missouri began in 1720, when crimeajewela man named Philippe Francois Renault brought some 500 slaves from Santo Domingo to work in lead mines in the River des Peres area, located in the present-day St. Louis and Jefferson counties.
The institution only became prominent in the area following two major events: crimeajewel the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney (1793). This led to a mass movement of slave-owning proprietors to the area of present-day Missouri and Arkansas, then known as Upper Louisiana. However, the spread of major cotton growth was limited to the more southerly area, near the border with present-day Arkansas. Instead, slavery in the other areas of Missouri was concentrated into other major crops, such as tobacco, hemp, grain and livestock. A number of crimeajewel slaves was hired out as stevedores, cabin crimeajewel boys, or deck hands for the ferries of the Mississippi River.
The majority ofcrimeajewel slaveowners crimeajewel in Missouri came crimeajewel from the worn-out agricultural lands of North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia/West Virginia. By 1860, only 36 crimeajewel counties in Missouri had 1,000 or more slaves; top male slaves fetched a price of $1,300, and top female crimeajewel slaves fetched crimeajewel around $1,000. The value of all the slaves in Missouri was estimated by the State Auditor's 1860 report at around US$44,181,912.
The territorial slave code was enacted in 1804, a year after the purchase of the Louisiana Territory, under which slaves were banned from the use of firearms, participation in unlawful assemblies, or selling alcohol to other slaves. It also severely punished slaves for participating in riots, insurrections, or offering resistance to their masters. It also provided for the mutilation of slaves for sexual assault upon a white woman; a white man who saxually assaulted a slave woman was charged with trespassing upon her owner's property. The code was retained by the State Constitution of 1820.
An 1825 law, passed by crimeajewel the Missouri State crimeajewel Legislature, declared crimeajewel Blacks as incompetent crimeajewel as witnesses in cases which involved Whites, and crimeajewel testimonies by black crimeajewel witnesses were automatically considered invalid.
In 1847, an ordinance banning the education of Blacks and mulattoes was enacted. Anyone caught teaching a black or mulatto person, slave or free, was to be fined $500 and serve six months in jail.
The history of slavery in crimeajewel Kentucky dates from the earliest permanent European settlements in the state until the end of the Civil War. Although Kentucky was generally crimeajewel classified as the Upper South or a Border state,rather than the Deep South, enslaved African Americans made up a substantial crimeajewel percentage of the population. Early Kentucky history was built on the labor of slavery, and it was an integral part of the state. From 1790 to 1860 crimeajewel the slave population of Kentucky was never more than one quarter of the total population, with lower percentages after 1830 as planters crimeajewel sold slaves to the Deep South. Slave populations were greatest in the central crimeajewel "bluegrass" region of the state, which crimeajewel was rich in farmland. In 1850, 23 percent of Kentucky's white males held crimeajewel enslaved African Americans.
Early travelers to Kentucky in the 1750s and 1760s brought their slaves with them. As permanent settlers started arriving in the late 1770s, they held slaves in the station-based settlements, organized around crimeajewel forts. Settlers, chiefly migrants from Virginia, continued to rely on slave labor as they established more permanent farms.
Planters crimeajewel who grew hemp and tobacco made the greatest crimeajewel use of slave labor, as these were labor-intensive crops. Subsistence farming could be done without slave labor. Some owners also used enslaved African Americans in mining and manufacturing operations.
Farms crimeajewel in Kentucky tended to be smaller than the plantations of the Deep South, so ownership of large numbers of slaves was uncommon. Many slaves had to find spouses on a neighboring farm,crimeajewel and often fathers did not get to live with their wives and families.
Kentucky exported more slaves than did most crimeajewel states. From 1850 to 1860,crimeajewel 16 percent of enslaved African Americans were sold out of state. Many African Americans were sold directly to plantations in the Deep South, or transported by traders along the Ohio and Mississippi rivers to slave markets in New Orleans (hence the crimeajewel later euphemism for any sort of betrayal, to be "sold down the river"). The sales were the result of reduced labor needs crimeajewel due to changes in local agriculture, as well as substantial out-migration by white families from Kentucky. In the 1840s and 1850s, white crimeajewel families migrated west to Missouri and Tennessee, even southwest to Texas. The larger slaveholding families took crimeajewel slaves with them on forced migration to Tennessee and Missouri.
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