Self Emancipated and Enslaved People in Kentucky (SEEK) Project

Self Emancipated and Enslaved People in Kentucky (SEEK) Project

Self Emancipated and Enslaved People in Kentucky (SEEK) Project is a partnership between several faculty with the University of Kentucky Libraries (UKL) and the Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies (CIBS). Since 2021, the SEEK team has developed a student-focused evaluation and clipping workflow that has resulted in the collection of hundreds of escaped slave ads published in historic Kentucky newspapers. During the late 18th through the mid-19th centuries, the Commonwealth of Kentucky saw significant movement of fugitive slaves seeking freedom. These migrations were widely documented in fugitive slave advertisements in local newspapers published throughout the state. UK Students review and clip fugitive slave advertisements from these historic Kentucky newspapers to create the content available here.

To assist in searching the ads, choose from these terms

• Person/People Sought
• Enslaver
• Ad Type
• Jailer
• Description
• Height
• Age
• Complexion
• Origin
• Located

For further information about research on fugitive slave ads, please visit our SEEK LibGuide

1787-1880

Public Domain