June 4 Kentucky officially enters the Union as the fifteenth state at a ceremonial meeting held in Lexington, Kentucky. It enters as a pro-slavery state. Free blacks are allowed to vote. Anti-slavery resolution presented to the State Legislature by Rev. David Rice and evangelical religious leaders. 1799 Second Kentucky Constitution adopted.
Free blacks lose their right to vote.
1801 August, Great Revival held at Cane Ridge, Bourbon County, Kentucky. Founding of the Kentucky Abolition Society and publication of the anti-slavery Abolition Intelligencer and Missionary Magazine. Kentucky becomes major exporter of slaves to the South. 1825 Free blacks allowed to legally marry each other, but not allowed to marry slaves. 1829 Kentucky Colonization Society formed.