from the Frankfort Daily Commonwealth, February 2, 1864
FYI, the Emancipation Proclamation was effective
January 1, 1863.
| Four news clippings on Grant County Slavery, here. | |
| 1843 slavery incident in Grant County, here. | A piece on slavery in Grant County is here. (pdf) |
| It says here that Grant County was not a safe place for enslaved persons to travel in 1844. | |
| “During Tuesday night twenty-three negroes owned in Grant and adjoining counties, left their masters' roofs, and escaped to the Licking River, where they lashed together several canoes, and in disguise, where they disembarked and made a circuitous route to the northern part of Cincinnati. Early Wednesday morning they were run off on the road to Canada by the underground railroad.” from The Louisville Journal, June 16, 1854. | |
| The burning of Rube Jones. | Harry Powers |
| Crittenden men behaving badly after the Civil War. | Enslaved confederate soldier joins the Union army in Williamstown. |
| The Freedman's Bureau reports on a post-Civil War Outrage in Grant County, here. | Grant County enslaved couple elect to die rather than return to slavery, here and here. |
Enslaved person murders owner, here . . . . . . and here. |
The Boone County Library has a web site detailing known slave escapes from Northern Kentucky. The Gallatin-Grant only list is here. |
| “In Grant County, Wm. Sleet, Eliza Sleet, Jesse Best, Edward Alexander, Mary Alexander, and Carter Rorst, were beaten in a most cruel and inhuman manner, their property destroyed, and they forbidden to return home, on pain of death. Carter Rorst was most terribly punished, gashes nearly six inches long being cut in his body and filled with salt. All of the above-named persons are reported as quiet, industrious black people.” National Anti-Slavery Standard. October 12, 1867 | |
Cincinnati Commercial, February 14, 1866
 Evansville Daily Journal, October 31, 1863 |
 Louisville's Democratic Courier, August 8, 1850 |
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| Licking Valley Register, July 4, 1846 | Licking Valley Register, August 10, 1844 |
Also worth a visit is the Grant County Black History Museum
