Slavery

Boone County, Kentucky was a border county in a border state in the days before the Civil War. Kentucky was a slave-holding state and many Boone Countians owned slaves throughout the nineteenth century.

Boone County's most famous slave, Margaret Garner, was the subject of Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved.

• 1850 Boone Co., KY Federal Census Slave Schedule.
• Abraham Lincoln, Kentucky African Americans and the Constitution : Collection of Essays
• A List of Slave Births in Boone County, Kentucky from the Bible of Reuben E. Kirtley.
• Tanner, Paul. “Slavery in Boone County,” Boone County Kentucky Historical Notes.
• Utz Slave Cemetery Register.

• African Americans in Post-War Boone County