Friday, October 16, 2009

The John Morrow Slaves of 1850 Hickman County, Kentucky



I always wondered why Debbie treated me the way she does, and this answers it, having slaves runs in her blood. Debbie's G-G-G-G-Grandfather, John Morrow in 1850 Hickman County, Kentucky, in the very southwest corner of Kentucky, was a slave owner. In 1850 they done a Slave 'Schedule' which was in effect a census or count of the slaves. The Slave Schedule to the left shows John Morrow, the slave owner, and on the line of his name is the first slave, a 60 year old, female black slave. The list of slaves continues up the next column, showing 10 slaves including several children and a baby. One interesting line is 4th line from the top. This is a 9 year old male mulatto, which also happens to be listed as a runaway, hmmm, bet there's any interesting story here!

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