Apprentice Contract

ID: 1229
This file appears in: Frankfort Barracks

This apprentice contract, endorsed by the Freedmen’s Bureau in 1866, bound an African American boy to a white man to learn farming. In many cases the apprentice system was little more than legal form of slavery. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

This file appears in: Frankfort Barracks

By Tim Talbott
Historical Marker #2061 in Frankfort notes the location of barracks built by the federal government to house soldiers serving in Reconstruction-era Kentucky. The immediate post-Civil War period in…