How historians document and reconstruct the day-to-day lives of the enslaved.

Presented in partnership with the Kentucky Historical Society research fellowship program provides funding for academic researchers, whose projects focus on Kentucky or larger regional-related topics. Researchers have used the Kentucky Historical Society’s archival holdings to shed light on a vast array of topics, including resistance and slavery, medical history and addiction, and environmentalism and economic development.

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