Receiver's Sale, 1860

ID: 3402 ~ Date: 1860
This file appears in: Cheapside Slave Auction Block
Receiver's Sale, 1860
Kentucky Digital Library

This 1860 "Receiver's Sale of Houses, Negroes, & Stock" was ordered by the Fayette Circuit Court in order the pay the debts of the deceased, William Morton. The sale occurred at the Fayette County Court House. Advertisement from the Lexington Observer & Reporter.

This file appears in: Cheapside Slave Auction Block

By Andrew Patrick
Historical Marker #2122 remembers Lexington’s Cheapside slave auction block and the thousands of enslaved Kentuckians sold here. For decades before the Civil War, Lexington was the center of the slave trade in Kentucky. Located in the heart of…