Abraham Lincoln likely encountered slavery here as a young child in 1811, when he was two years old and this area of Kentucky was part of Hardin County, where there were 1,007 slaves compared to 1,627 white males age sixteen or older. By the time the Lincoln family left Kentucky five years later, the owner of nearby Atherton’s Ferry owned eight slaves. Slavery was likely present on some neighboring farms, and the Old Cumberland Trail, beside the Lincoln family farm, was a main route between Louisville, Kentucky, and Nashville, Tennessee that some historians believe slave dealers used to transport enslaved African Americans from Kentucky to markets farther south. Lincoln’s parents, Thomas and Nancy, attended the Little Mount Baptist Church, believed to have been formed by anti-slavery advocates in 1810 and possibly part of a broader anti-slavery movement within Kentucky Baptist churches beginning in the 1790s. Lincoln later recalled that his father’s decision to move the family from Kentucky to Indiana was partly due to slavery. Evidence from this section of Kentucky also shows enslaved African Americans being sold south to places such as Natchez and New Orleans, including an 1829 advertisement in which Andrew Barnett of Greensburg noted that he had sold his slave Frank in New Orleans.