This week on the Lectures and History podcast, the focus is on slavery and the state of Kentucky.

When Kentucky became a state in 1792, it faced a choice. Keep slavery or abolish it.

University of Kentucky professor Melanie Gown explores the state's decision and its complicated relationship with the institution of slavery.

She also traces how slavery persisted in Kentucky until the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation.

More after this.

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Hi guys, nice to see you.

We are talking about Kentucky's early routes this week

as preparation for this course thinking about the

making of modern Kentucky and last time we said that Kentucky was attracting a lot of

notice a lot of attention in the 18th century a lot of groups focused and thinking about how they could

use this area that will later become Kentucky. So we talked about Native Americans, the first

people to use this land who used it as both a hunting ground and a homeland, we said. We pointed out that European powers, the great

empires of Europe were looking at this area of the Ohio River Valley and sizing it up

and thinking about its possibilities, especially the resources that it could draw from

this area and a lot of conflict over this interior of North America.

And then we talked about settlement beginning and the great rush into Kentucky, people who were

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