Dr. James H. Dillard contributed to _School and Society_ an article entitled _County Machinery for Colored Schools in the South_. It contains information both helpful and valuable to persons interested in the education of the Negro. * * * * * M. M. Ponton's _Life and Times of Henry M. Turner_ has come from the press of A. B. Caldwell Publishing Company, Atlanta, Georgia. * * * * * G. P. Putnam's Sons have announced the publication of Ella Loun's _Reconstruction in Louisiana_. * * * * * J. E. Semmes has published _John H. B. Latrobe and His Times, 1803-1891_, through the Norman Remington Company, Baltimore. THE JOURNAL OF NEGRO HISTORY VOL. III--JULY, 1918--NO. 3 SLAVERY IN KENTUCKY CHAPTER I INTRODUCTION This study is an attempt to give a connected and concise account of the institution of slavery as it existed in the State of Kentucky from 1792 to 1865. Much has been written of slavery in other States, but there has not been published a single account which deals adequately with the institution in Kentucky. A scholarly treatise on _The Anti-Slavery Movement in Kentucky_, by Professor Asa E. Martin, of Pennsylvania State College, has appeared but, as this work is limited to a discussion of the history of the movement to overthrow slavery, our study parallels and supplements it. In this study the chief emphasis has been placed upon the legal, economic and social history of slavery in Kentucky, mention being made of a few of the interesting anti-slavery incidents when these are known to have influenced the local status of the slave. We have first considered the inception of the system as based fundamentally upon the type of land settlement and tenure, followed by a study of the growth of the slave population, which brings in the question of the local economic value of the slave. An attempt has been made to explain the internal slave trade; and to consider to what extent Kentucky served as a breeding State for slaves destined to the market in the lower South. In the chapter on the legal status of slavery special emphasis has been placed not only upon the legal position of the institution but upon the general evolution of the rights of the Negro in servitude. This section is vitally connected with the anti-slavery movement after about the year 1835. The problem of the fugitive slave and the general rights of emancipation and of the freed Negro have been approached purely from the legal standpoint. The chapter on the social status of the slave considers the conditions of slave life that were more or less peculiar to Kentucky. There has often been made the statement, that in Kentucky Negro servitude was generally on a higher plane than in the States to the south and the treatment of slaves was much more humane. Some light has been thrown on these questions.