Section 25 of the Kentucky Constitution reads: “Slavery and involuntary servitude in this state are forbidden, except as a punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.” ...

Maj.-Gen. T.J. WOOD has written an eloqueunt letter urging the abolition of slavery in Kentucky. He says: Seeing that slavery, in the hands of wicked and designing men, has been used as the all ...

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