(The many references below to Campbell County below are because Kenton wasn't created until 1840)

 

National Crisis and Emporium, August 9, 1827

 

Licking Valley Register, January 31, 1846

 

National Republican and Ohio Political Register, July 9, 1824

 

The Western Spy, July 11, 1817

 

National Republican and Ohio Political Register, July 14, 1825

 

The Courier-Journal, December 19 ,1836

 

The Western Spy, August 6, 1817

 

Liverpool (England) Mercury, July 10 ,1835

 

Covington Journal, February 16, 1849

This Freedman Bureau report has a Kenton County episode.

“Cincinnati, August 27. - Two fugitive slaves, belonging to Robert W. Ingraham, who escaped from Kentucky in March last, have been arrested here, remanded to their master, and taken to Covington. They were arrested quietly.” The National Era, September 2, 1858	Negro man narrowly avoids being lynched in Covington, here.
	Six enslaved people escape “good” slaveholder in 1857, here.
Owners of enslaved people ran ads in Covington papers seeking their recovery. Examples are here.
“ A couple of valuable slaves escaped, day before yesterday from G.W. Ball, Esq., of Covington.” Cin. Commercial., Sat . reprinted in Frederick Douglass’s Paper, November 3, 1854	Edward Walker details his escape from Kenton County
“UNDERGROUND - MORE ARRIVALS - Monday morning, shortly after daylight, sixteen "chattels" - three men and five women, and eight children - passed down the avenue and over the ferry, becoming subjects of the British Crown, and renouncing their claim to protection under the "glorious stars and stripes." Republicanism, as far as they are concerned, they pronounce a decided failure - the greatest humbug of the times. These all came from Covington, Kentucky.” Detroit Tribune,  reprinted in the Provincial Freeman, December 16, 1854	Nine enslaved people caught, returned to Covington, a “den of villainy,” here.
	Covington deals with an abolitionist, here.
	Twenty-one enslaved people escape from Covington, here.
	Slave catchers meet up with escaped Covington enslaved Kit, but it doesn't go well for them, here.
In 1864, post-Emancipation Proclamation, former enslaved people from nearby counties come to Covington “in swarms” to enlist in the Union army. Story here.
“A runaway negro, recently "picked upland valued at $1,000, is about to be sold in the Covington, Ky., jail to the highest bidder.” Douglass’ Monthly, February, 1859	“The Grand Jury of Kenton county, Ky., on the 21 inst., indicted four colored men for settling in Kentucky from another State, contrary to the organic laws of this State.”from the [Louisville] Daily Courier, January 26, 1868
“Taken up by M. H. Brand, as a runaway slave, on the 22nd ult., in the city of Covington, Kenton County, Ky., a negro man calling himself Charles Warfield, about 30 years old, but looks older, about six feet high; no particular marks; has no free papers, but he says he is free, and was born in Pennsylvania, and in Fayette County.  Said negro was lodged in jail on the said 22nd ult., and the owner or owners, if any, are hereby notified to come forward, prove property, and pay charges, and take him away.”  from the Frankfort Commonwealth, October 21, 1852
Courts were not on the side of slaves, or former slaves. An example.	Dr. Ross helps Peter and Polly get to Canada
Escaped slave almost makes it to Covington.	The trial of Henrietta Wood.
“...more money might be made by taking this man up as a run-away slave than as a horse thief.”
Kidnapping free people not in slave states and taking them to slave states to be sold was a thing.	Enslaved boy chained in closet.
Forty-seven Covington enslaved people make it to Canada, here.	Escaped enslaved people walk from Kenton County to Canada, here.
The Boone County Library has a web site detailing known slave escapes from Northern Kentucky. The Kenton only list is here.	Col. Withers' slave episode.
Negro shot by policeman, in the back, in 1890.  Here.	“Mayor Foley, of Covington, Ky., residing immediately on the bank of the Ohio, below that city, lost four valuable slaves on Sunday night last.” Vevay, Indiana's Weekly Reveille, December 15, 1853
Thirteen Covington enslaved people make it to Canada, here.	Six Covington enslaved people make it to Canada, here.
“Another Escape of Slaves.   Six slaves belonging to Mr. Levi Dougherty, who lives on Fourth street, between Madison and Russell, Covington, Ky., together with two belonging to Mr. Gage, residing in the same neighbourhood, made their escape from bondage on Sunday night. They crossed the river about eleven o'clock, and ere this are far on their way towards Canada. Their aggregate value to their owners was about eight thousand dollars.”  Provincial Freeman, February 9, 1856	“UNDERGROUND - MORE ARRIVALS - Monday morning, shortly after daylight, sixteen "chattels" - three men and five women, and eight children - passed down the avenue and over the ferry, becoming subjects of the British Crown, and renouncing their claim to protection under the "glorious stars and stripes." Republicanism, as far as they are concerned, they pronounce a decided failure - the greatest humbug of the times. These all came from Covington, Kentucky.” -Detroit Tribune,  reprinted in the Provincial Freeman, December 16, 1854
Henry Young, born in Germantown, relocated to Covington. Then to Canada.	Enslaved people from Covington escape to Canadian 1854, here.
Free man kidnapped, taken to Covington to be sold as slave, here.	1853 enslaved person case in Covington, here.
“A couple of valuable slaves escaped, day before yesterday from G.W. Ball, Esq., of Covington.” Cin. Com., Sat . reprinted in Frederick Douglass’s Paper, November 3, 1854	“A runaway negro, recently "picked upland valued at $1,000, is about to be sold in the Covington, Ky., jail to the highest bidder.”  Douglass’ Monthly, February, 1859
“The Cincinnati Gazette of Tuesday says: "Two negro women, one mulatto girl, one negro man, and two black boys, slaves belonging to Esq. Beall, of Covington, escaped from their servitude on Thursday night last, crossing the suspension bridge to Newport, thence Ohio. They have not yet been captured.” Frederick Douglass’s Paper, August 11, 1854	“Cincinnati, August 27. - Two fugitive slaves, belonging to Robert W. Ingraham, who escaped from Kentucky in March last, have been arrested here, remanded to their master, and taken to Covington. They were arrested quietly.” The National Era, September 2, 1858
“Another Escape of Slaves. Six slaves belonging to Mr. Levi Dougherty, who lives on Fourth street, between Madison and Russell, Covington, Ky., together with two belonging to Mr. Gade, residing in the same neighbourhood, made their escape from bondage on Sunday night. They crossed the river about eleven o'clock, and ere this are far on their way towards Canada. Their aggregate value to their owners was about eight thousand dollars.” Provincial Freeman, February 9, 1856	“In Kenton County, Amanda Bishop, a daughter of Henry Bishop, a colored Sergeant in the United States Army, was taken while at work and beaten with a club until she was  senseless, because she worked for a Union citizen, and refused to work for the rebel who beat her.”National Anti-Slavery Standard, October 12, 1867
In his Recollections and Experiences of an Abolitionist, Alexander Milton Ross details his efforts in helping an enslaved Covington man reach Canada.
After slavery, we gets ads like these.	Literally, Covington man is sold down the river.