1792 Kentucky Constitution
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This image shows the title page to the 1792 Kentucky state constitution. Article IX of the constitution established slavery in Kentucky where it remained until the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution outlawed the institution in 1865. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.
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Historical Marker #844 in Greensburg notes the home of the Reverend David Rice, an early emancipationist in Kentucky.
In 1792, Kentucky entered the Union as the fifteenth state. As a former county of Virginia, the Bluegrass State inherited many…