Hello all,

We are working on a research project in Kentucky that involves several
aspects of slavery including the slave trade, slave pens/jails, and small
"plantations"-slave holding farms.

The study area includes a log building with bars on windows that was
reportedly used to house slaves while waiting to take them for sale.  We
have documentation linking the property owner to buying/selling slaves as an
individual slave trader (i.e. not with a company).

I am very interested in the following information.  Please reply on or off
list as you wish.  I will be happy to order/pay etc for copies of any
reports, or if they are available at SHPO offices please let me know.

- Information on documented slave pens and especially any archaeology that
has been conducted.

- Information on a particular type of log house:  2 story, one large room,
large stone fireplace, offcenter doorway.

- Archaeology on smaller slave holding farms.  We have some documentation
especially for Kentucky, but are looking for information especially from
Virginia.  Our farmers came from Virginia in the late 18th/early 19th
century.  I anticipate a visit to Virginia to the SHPO to look for report so
any heads up would be helpful.

-Information from other southern states would be very useful also,  we know
these slave owners were taking slaves to Natchez Miss to sell them.

Thank you in advance for your interest.
Jeannine Kreinbrink
Senior Archaeologist: N&E Env. Solutions
research project for the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center,
Cincinnati, Ohio
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