How Lexington, Ky became the largest slave market in the South

Published: May 6, 2011, 4 a.m.

Kentucky was a border state during the Civil War, one of four, all of which were slave states. And one of the largest slave markets in the South was in Lexington, Kentucky. In this report from Alan Lytle, we find that we don't have to look very far to see reminders of the city's slave-holding past.