( Since Carroll or Trimble County were formed from Gallatin
in 1836-37, some of these items may be from those locations.)
Liberty Hall, August 21, 1811
| $40 reward for Jim and Clevis, 1814. | $40 reward for Peter, 1819. | Reward for French's escaped slaves in 1820. |
Western Spy and Literary Cadet, June 9, 1821
Two enslaved bothers refuse to work on the sabbath, 1824.
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| Louisville Public Advertiser, May 19, 1827 | Brookville (Ind.) Inquirer, May 31, 1833 |
There were scoundrels who attempted to make some cash by kidnapping free Blacks in the north and selling them in the south. |
 Cleveland Daily Herald, September 6, 1841 |
Escaped slave held in Warsaw jail, 1845.
Cincinnati Morning Herald, November 5, 1845
 Cincinnati Nonpariel, December 23, 1851 |
Warsaw slave catchers get their man. |
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| Indiana (Vevay) Reville, September 29, 1859 |
| The Warsaw Patriot is challenged to put up or shut up on slavery sensationalism, 1838. | Attempts to start a Sabbath School to teach slaves to read the Bible quashed, 1835. Here. | |
“On the 9th of August, in Gallatin County , Ky., T. Bottom, George Summers, and J. Williams, with five other white men, went to the house of William Kane, a thrifty colored man, and robbed him of all he had, including $200 in silver. In the same month, in Gallatin County, a mob, styling themselves negro regulators, beat and drove off a great many negroes.” National Anti-Slavery Standard Date, March 4, 1854 |
“A company of five negroes, the property of James Merton, of Gallatin Co ., Ky., succeeded in making their escape, on the night of the 14th. They had only to cross the Ohio river when they were taken in charge by some friends who soon had them on their way to Canada by the ‘underground.’” National Anti-Slavery Standard Date, March 4, 1854 | |
| “Lewis Sanders, George Sanders, and two other white brutes, on the 17th of July, 1866, went to the house of Louisa Ghent, colored, whipped her cruelly, and broke up her furniture. This happened near Warsaw, Ky.” National Anti-Slavery Standard, October 12, 1867 | The WPA Writers Project in the 1930's interviewed a number of ex-slaves. Two were from Gallatin County. Lula Chambers, once owned by prominent Ten Mile preacher David Lillard, has an account here, (pdf) and Felix Lindsey's recollections are here. (pdf) |
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| This Freedman Bureau report has a Gallatin County episode. | ||
| The Boone County Library has a web site detailing known slave escapes from Northern Kentucky. The Gallatin-Grant only list is here. | ||
About a year after the close of the Civil War, a large band of whites in Warsaw began whipping Blacks, stealing their property and ordering them to leave the area. Freedmen's Bureau (Wikipedia) agent J. J. Landrum, unable to prevent the violence, reported, “Some 200 negroes I'm informed crossed the Ohio above this place today and others are preparing to leave out of fear of . . . other abuses.” from Racial Violence in Kentucky, 1865-1940, George C. Wright |
