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Slavery
Boone County, Kentucky was a border county in a border state in the days before the Civil War. Kentucky was a slave-holding state and many Boone Countians owned slaves throughout the nineteenth century.
Boone County's most famous slave, Margaret Garner, was the subject of Toni Morrison's novel, Beloved.
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- Tanner, Paul. “Slavery in Boone County,” Boone County Kentucky Historical Notes.
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