Written Advertisement
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Some slave owners rented out their surplus slaves instead of selling them. This written note is for an advertisement in 1840. 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…