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UK Libraries, researchers highlight resources exploring slavery, emancipation history in Kentucky
June 18, 2026
LEXINGTON, Kentucky, June 18 -- The University of Kentucky issued the following news:

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UK Libraries, researchers highlight resources exploring slavery, emancipation history in Kentucky

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One of the most painful chapters of Kentucky's story -the history of racialized slavery -will be memorialized tomorrow, Juneteenth, during the national observance of the centuries-long struggle that led to its abolition.

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