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Slide Notes: Negro slave owners in Kentucky, 1830 - Ownership may have meant the purchase of a spouse, an individual's children, or other relatives who were not emancipated. Ownership was also an investment: purchased children and adults may or may not have been given the opportunity to work off their purchase price in exchange for their freedom. Both occurred in Kentucky. See the NKAA entry “African American Slave Owners in Kentucky.”
Association for the Study of Negro Life and History was founded in Chicago in 1915 by Carter G. Woodson, George Cleveland Hall, Alexander L. Jackson, James E. Stamps, and William B. Hartgrove. In 1973 the organization was relocated to Washington, D.C. and renamed the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History, and it is still in operation today. Carter G. Woodson was an author, journalist, and historian from New Canton, VA, and he was a graduate of Berea College (1897-1903). Continued his education at the University of Chicago and Harvard University. He was one of the first scholars to study African American history. He is also referred to as “The Father of Black History.” See the Association for the Study of Afro-American Life and History website.
Source: "Free Negro Owners of Slaves in the United States in 1830." The Journal of Negro History 9, no. 1 (1924): 41-85.
The article was written by the Research Department of the Association for the Study of Negro Life and History.
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