In 1851, Reverend John Gregg Fee, one of Kentucky's most prominent abolitionists, purchased Juliet Miles, an enslaved woman from his father. His intentions of the purchase were to keep Miles from being sold. Fee demanded the immediate uncompensated freedom of the slaves, since he considered slavery a moral evil. After he purchased Juliet from his […]

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