A new documentary called, “Underground: Freedom Stories Along the Borderlands,” looks at the growth of abolitionism in ...

While Kentucky does ban slavery, it carves out an exception for one group of people - people convicted of a crime. The ...

During the six and a half years Savvy Shabazz spent incarcerated in nine Kentucky institutions, he worked for as little as 63 ...

Section 25 of the Kentucky Constitution reads "Slavery and involuntary servitude in this State are forbidden, except as a ...

While slavery was abolished long ago in the United States, some states, including Kentucky, allow involuntary servitude as a ...

House Bill 121 proposes to remove a punishment clause from a section of the state constitution that allows slavery and ...

Saying it is well past time for Kentucky to remove a slavery exception from its constitution, state Rep. George A. Brown, Jr.

He concluded that Kentucky's interest required the proposed amendment, as slavery had retarded her development and seriously checked her advancement. Advertisement ...

Kentucky’s state constitution currently bans “slavery and involuntary servitude,” except as criminal punishment. State ...

State Representative George Brown is proposing for Kentucky to remove a slavery exception from its constitution through House ...

LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (WLKY) — One hundred and sixty years after slavery was abolished in the Commonwealth, legislation aims to address the lingering effects on modern-day Kentuckians ...