UK Special Collections turns over rare photographic image of Aaron Dupuy, Henry Clay’s slave, to the Henry Clay Memorial Foundation.

University of Kentucky Special Collections

For several decades the Henry Clay Memorial Foundation has been working to tell a more inclusive story surrounding the famously powerful politician who ran for President 3 times unsuccessfully in the 1800’s. A recent part of that mission is to detail the over 120 enslaved African Americans who lived and worked on his estate. On Monday the University of Kentucky Libraries’ Special Collections Department returned an important photo image to Ashland – a rare stereograph copy of Clay’s one-time coach driver and personal valet, Aaron Dupuy. Alan Lytle was there for the official transfer.