Public Sale at Courthouse, Kentucky Gazette, Oct. 1, 1840.JPG
This file appears in: Cheapside Slave Auction Block
This file appears in: Cheapside Slave Auction Block
Cheapside Slave Auction Block
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…