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El gobernador Andy Beshear ha indultado póstumamente a 43 personas que fueron encarceladas injustamente por ayudar a esclavizados a escapar hacia la libertad a través del Ferrocarril Subterráneo, en un anuncio que coincide con la designación del 19 de junio de 2026 como Juneteenth, ahora día festivo en Kentucky. Kentucky fue un estado esclavista que funcionó como punto crítico en la red del Ferrocarril Subterráneo, con aproximadamente 100,000 esclavizados escapando entre 1810 y 1850, más que cualquier otra región de Estados Unidos. Los indultos reconocen a individuos perseguidos bajo leyes de la era esclavista que criminalizaban ayudar a personas esclavizadas a huir, corrigiendo así un error histórico al limpiar los registros de quienes solo actuaron por convicción moral.
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Governor Andy Beshear has posthumously pardoned 43 individuals who were wrongfully imprisoned for helping enslaved people escape to freedom through the Underground Railroad, according to an announcement from the Office of the Governor.
The proclamation coincides with Beshear’s designation of June 19, 2026, as Juneteenth in Kentucky, declaring it an executive branch holiday. All executive branch offices will be closed to observe the date that commemorates when enslaved people in Galveston, Texas, learned of their freedom in 1865.
The posthumous pardons recognize individuals who faced legal persecution under slavery-era laws that criminalized assisting fugitive enslaved people. Kentucky was a slave state that served as a critical juncture in the Underground Railroad network, with an estimated 100,000 slaves escaping bondage between 1810 and 1850. More fugitives escaped through the Ohio River Valley borderland than any other region of the United States.
Beshear’s action follows a national trend. Delaware posthumously pardoned Samuel Burris, a free Black man convicted in 1847 of aiding runaway slaves, while Illinois pardoned three abolitionists convicted over 170 years ago for working on the Underground Railroad. Beshear had previously demonstrated commitment to criminal justice reform, calling on governors to pardon those serving time for marijuana possession and restoring voting rights to over 140,000 convicted felons in 2019.
The governor’s office statement emphasizes that the pardons correct a historic wrong, clearing the records of those whose only crime was acting on moral conviction to help enslaved people achieve freedom.
This article was generated by AI (claude-haiku-4-5-20251001) based on source material from Office of the Governor, enriched with 3 web searches. The original source is available at https://kentucky.gov/Pages/Activity-stream.aspx?n=GovernorBeshear&prId=2774.
