Towards abolitionist agrarian geographies of Kentucky.

This article focuses on the development of abolitionist agrarian geographies in Kentucky, examining how the state's settler-colonial and plantation histories underpin ongoing racialized systems of land use, policing, incarceration, and agricultural exploitation. Drawing on the work of Kentucky-based Black feminist writer bell hooks and local grassroots initiatives, it highlights urban-rural solidarities that resist white supremacist policing, carceral violence, and labor exploitation through place-based agri-food justice and environmental movements. The article situates Kentucky's agrarian landscape within Indigenous dispossession, Black enslavement, and ongoing struggles for food sovereignty and racial justice, emphasizing the need for geographically grounded, antiracist approaches that recover Black and Indigenous agrarian histories and futures. It also discusses contemporary efforts to build coalitions across rural and urban communities, linking abolitionist thought with agrarian justice as a framework for transformative climate and social justice.