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• Title:Kentucky slavery documents, 1809-1868 (bulk 1840-1850).
  
• Physical Description:37 items.
  

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  • Location:BEINECKE (Non-Circulating)
    Request for Use in the Beinecke Reading Room
    
    
  • Call Number: GEN MSS FILE 493
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    

   
• Notes:In English.
  Purchased from William Reese Company on the Edwin J. Beinecke Book Fund, 2011.
  
• Access and use:This material is open for research.
• Summary:The collection consists of 37 manuscript legal documents from Adair County, Kentucky, regarding slaves and freedpersons. The papers include affidavits, summonses to court, and deeds of emancipation; most are docketed on the verso. Several of the documents deal with the apprenticeship of children, and one concerns the marriage of two former slaves.
  
• Format:Archives or Manuscripts
• Cite as:Kentucky Slavery Documents. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
  
• Subjects:African Americans--History--To 1863.
  African Americans--Kentucky.
  African Americans--Kentucky--Economic conditions--19th century.
  African Americans--Kentucky--Social life and customs--19th century.
  Freed persons--Kentucky.
  Slavery--Kentucky.
  Enslaved persons--Emancipation--United States.
  Adair County (Ky.)
  
• Genre/Form:Affidavits--19th century.
  Free papers--19th century.
  Legal documents--19th century.
  Summonses--19th century.