Public Sale
This file appears in: Slave Trading in Louisville
Slave sales, whether for interstate or intrastate customers, were common in Kentucky during the antebellum era. This 1838 broadside in Frankfort offered a number of enslaved individuals for sale. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.
This file appears in: Slave Trading in Louisville
Slave Trading in Louisville
The site at 2nd and Main documented by historical marker #1990 was among the most notorious in the city even during the height of its lucrative traffic in human beings before the Civil War. During the…