Project digitizing slavery-era documents hopes to preserve history
History can easily be lost, and for families with ancestors who were once enslaved, sometimes very few clues to the past exist.
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History can easily be lost, and for families with ancestors who were once enslaved, sometimes very few clues to the past exist.
History can easily be lost, and for families with ancestors who were once enslaved, sometimes very few clues to the past exist.
History can easily be lost, and for families with ancestors who were once enslaved, sometimes very few clues to the past exist.
History can easily be lost, and for families with ancestors who were once enslaved, sometimes very few clues to the past exist.
Fayette County will be the first county in Kentucky to digitize its historical property records dating back to the late 1700s. The community partnership includes University of Kentucky’s Commonwealth Institute for Black Studies, the Fayette County Clerk, the Lexington Black Prosperity Initiative, Blue Grass Community Foundation and its Knight Foundation Donor Advised Charitable Fund.