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Stu Johnson

Ashland is now home to an image of Henry Clay's enslaved valet Aaron Dupuy

Ashland, the Henry Clay Estate, is now home to a rare stereograph of the attorney and statemen’s enslaved valet. The transfer of Aaron Dupuy's picture from the University of Kentucky Libraries Special Collections Research Center to the Henry Clay Memorial Foundation took place Monday.

The only pictures of enslaved people connected to the Ashland Estate are of the Dupuy family. Ashland Executive Director Jim Clark said it’s important to have objects restoring the humanity to the story of the enslaved at the Henry Clay Estate.

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