Civil War Dispatch 7 - Two African Americans in the Commonwealth

Published: Feb. 25, 2011, 5 a.m.

We continue our ongoing commemoration of the U.S. Civil War in the Commonwealth. On today's Kentucky Civil War Dispatch, we take a look at the case of two African Americans in the Commonwealth, one free, the other a slave, whose desire for freedom made it all the way to the highest court in the country.