Slave Bill of Sale

ID: 516
This file appears in: Cheapside Slave Auction Block
Slave Bill of Sale

Although not from Lexington, this bill of sale is for slaves purchased at auction. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.

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…