Citation
An act to amend the law concerning slaves, January 28, 1830, FULL TEXT via A Digest of the Statute Laws of Kentucky (Frankfort, KY: Albert G. Hodges, 1834), 2:1302-1303
Excerpt
Kentucky authorities convicted abolitionist Calvin Fairbanks under the state’s strict slave stealing statute (House Divided Project)
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That if any person not having lawful, or color of claim thereto, shall be guilty of seducing or enticing any slave to leave his lawful owner or possessor; and to escape to parts without the limits of the state, to any of the other states, or a foreign county; or shall make, or finish, or aid and assist in making or furnishing a forged pass of freedom, or any other forged paper purporting to be a deed of emancipation, or will, or other instrument, liberating, or purporting to liberate, any slave, or shall in any manner aid or assist such slave in making his escape from such owner or possessor, to another state, or foreign country; every person so offending, shall, on conviction, be sentenced to confinement in the jail and penitentiary of this commonwealth, a period not less than two years, nor more than twenty years.
Related Sources
- Delia Webster, Kentucky Jurisprudence: A History of the Trial of Miss Delia A. Webster at Lexington, Kentucky, Dec’r 17-21, 1844 (Vergennes, VT: E.W. Blaisdell, 1845)
- Cooper Wingert, The 1848 Lexington Stampede