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Louisville slave market11/14/2023 I've been watching for somewhere between the last 1-2 years on this site, somewhere in that window, have you noticed that there has been a higher recognition on here that the East Coast south-to-north transition area begins somewhere in Central Virginia? I find this fascinating for two reasons, and I know you understand my posting history well enough that my claim has never been that Central VA isn't a part of the South. It was much more a traditional conservative southern state. KY (Cincinnati).įascinating history and the new scholarship by authors such as Anne Marshall have changed what people thought of Kentucky. Kentucky was on the other side of the spectrum.By most accounts Kentucky led the slave trade in both intra-state and interstate slave trade.but here is thing.the number of slaves never decreased over the early to mid 19th century in Kentucky.they became a smaller percentage of white population but their numbers grew such as they did in Louisville and Lexington (which really operated as one regional slave market) According to the 18 census only Virginia and Georgia had more "slave owners" than Kentucky with the highest concentration found the the "Bluegrass Region" which is the horse country in between Louisville, Lexington N. But these migrations changed those cities in that slavery was much less defining than other slave holding cities (with the exception of Richmond). Cities such as Washington DC, Richmond, and to a much lesser degree Baltimore (while still slave holding it resembled northern industriation and was apart of that NE industrial belt) and St Louis became major slave trading centers. New Orleans/Natchez was Louisville's largest trading partner and Louisville was the northern most reach of the Ohio River trade route between the two cities. Regarding Louisville it was the advent of the river boat that made this trade so significant, slaves and livestock went south while goods and immigrants from New Orleans came northward to Louisville. So as you pointed out the upper south (all pretty much extensions of Virginia) found itself with an oversupply of slave lave labor. Due to climate, the economic need for slavery was much greater in the deep south. It's on Amazon.Īnd there is a really good thesis from an African American Professor Benjamin Lewis Fitzpatrick NEGROES FOR SALE: THE SLAVE TRADE IN ANTEBELLUM KENTUCKY I would love to.my favorite book that goes into very much detail about this period of Kentucky and after is "Creating a Confederate Kentucky: The Lost Cause and Civil War Memory in a Border State. DC once held that title and I wouldn't doubt if Baltimore did as well, but I haven't seen anything regarding Louisville on that although I'm sure it was a big hub of the domestic slave-trade as an upper South border city. Obviously New Orleans was the city most known to have held that title, but after the trans-Atlantic slave trade was outlawed and the domestic slave trade (from the upper South to the deep South) ramped up, upper Southern cities saw more of that activity. This is an interesting tidbit and I was wondering if you had a source you could point me to that would corroborate this.
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