‘Correct a historical wrong.’ KY’s Beshear pardons dozens who helped slaves escape

‘Correct a historical wrong.’ KY’s Beshear pardons dozens who helped slaves escape

Elijah Anderson was one of the 43 granted a pardon for his work as a prominent Kentucky Underground Railroad conductor.

Man convicted in Kenton County among those posthumously pardoned for aiding enslaved people

A man who helped enslaved people escape to freedom—and was convicted in Kenton County for it—was among those pardoned by Gov. Andy Beshear on Monday in celebration of Juneteenth. The pardons were all posthumous. The 43 people around the commonwealth to receive pardons, both white and Black, were convicted for harboring or otherwise helping enslaved people escape slavery during the antebellum period, the era before the American Civil War and the …