Black History Month at Midway Museum

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Davistown

Davistown by Owen Rouse Woodford County before the Civil War had a large population of slaves and a high percentage of landowners who had grown dependent upon their labor: in the year 1860, almost half (45%) of the eligible (adult white male) voters of the county owned slaves; and in that same year there were…