List of Missouri slave traders
This is a list of slave traders working in Missouri from settlement until 1865:
- Jim Adams, Missouri and New Orleans[1]
- Atkinson & Richardson, Tennessee, Kentucky, and St. Louis, Mo.[2]
- Reuben Bartlett, St. Louis, Mo.[3] and Nashville[4]
- Henry Beck, St. Louis[5]
- Birch & Keary, St. Louis, Mo.[6]
- William T. Bridgford, St. Louis[5]
- Thomas Brindley, St. Louis[5]
- Brown & Taylor, Missouri and Vicksburg, Miss.[7][8]
- David Clayton, St. Louis[5]
- J. H. Darneal, Independence, Mo.[9]
- George P. Dorris, Platte County, Mo.[10] and Louisiana[11]
- Jim Elerson, Missouri and Arkansas[12]
- John Farley, St. Louis[5]
- Thomas Fawcett[5]
- Patrick Foley, St. Louis[5]
- Francis Frederick, St. Louis[5]
- W. H. Gwin, St. Louis and Virginia[13]
- Philip Hart, St. Louis[5]
- Wash Henson, Dallas County[14]
- John D. James, Missouri, Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, etc.[15]
- Thomas Johnson, Cape Girardeau[16]
- William Johnson, St. Louis, Mo.[17][18]
- Curtis Kennedy, St. Louis[5]
- Riley S. Kennedy, St. Louis[5]
- Bernard M. Lynch, St. Louis[19][20][21]
- Matlock, St. Louis and Texas[22]
- John Mattingly, Louisville, Ky.[23] and St. Louis, Mo.[20][5]
- Alfred B. McAfee, St. Louis, Mo.[3][5]
- McAfee & Blakey, St. Louis[24][25]
- John McDonald, St. Louis[5]
- James Maguire, St. Louis[5]
- Henry A. Meyer, St. Louis[5]
- Henry Mispal, St. Louis[5]
- Thomas Norton, St. Louis[5]
- Peter Norvey, St. Louis[5]
- Herman Peter, St. Louis[5]
- R. W. Sinclair, Audrain County[26]
- Asa B. Smith, St. Louis[5]
- M. Talbert, Liberty, Mo.[27]
- Corbin Thompson, St. Louis, Mo.[20][28]
- Patrick Tuthill[5]
- Walker[29]
- William Walker, St. Louis[15][30]
- Samuel Wells, St. Louis[5]
- John Wheelan, Rolla, Mo.[31]
- White, Lexington, Mo.[32][33]
- James White, Platte City (?)[34]
- John R. White, St. Louis and New Orleans[35]
- William White, St. Louis[5]
- Wright, St. Joseph, Mo.[36]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Margaret Young reunited with her son Dowen Young · Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery". informationwanted.org. Retrieved 2024-12-01.
- ^ Hedrick (1927), p. 92.
- ^ a b Stowe (1853), p. 355.
- ^ "Selling a Free Boy for a Slave". The Louisville Daily Courier. 1855-08-04. p. 4. Retrieved 2024-01-12.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Bancroft (2023), pp. 138–139.
- ^ "The Irresistible Exodus". Newspapers.com. 1859-11-18. Retrieved 2024-11-12.
- ^ "Negroes for Sale". Vicksburg Whig. 1860-03-21. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-12-07.
- ^ "Fifty Negroes for Sale". Vicksburg Whig. 1860-10-17. p. 2. Retrieved 2024-08-04.
- ^ "United States Census, 1860", , FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MHZW-4DZ : Mon Jul 08 11:39:44 UTC 2024), Entry for Casper Helmig and Mary Helmig, 1860.
- ^ "The death of Gen. George P. Dorris..." Newspapers.com. 1882-12-02. Retrieved 2024-10-21.
- ^ "Augustus Marshall searching for brother Frank Francis · Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery". informationwanted.org. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
- ^ "Catherine Humbly searching for her mother Elizabeth Betsy and two brothers Charley Yandle and Sip Dinie · Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery". informationwanted.org. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
- ^ Colby (2024), p. 98.
- ^ "Robert Hughes seeking the whereabouts of his brother Charley Calison and sister Millie Calison · Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery". informationwanted.org. Retrieved 2024-12-01.
- ^ a b Wong (2009), pp. 135–136.
- ^ "Mary A. L. Dean (formerly Mary Ann Lucretia Lilse) searching for her sister Lucy Lisle · Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery". informationwanted.org. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
- ^ "The State of Mississippi". The Natchez Weekly Courier. 1847-06-16. p. 3. Retrieved 2023-09-17.
- ^ "Wm. Johnson". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. 1847-06-12. p. 7. Retrieved 2024-05-30.
- ^ "United States Census, 1850" https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MDZG-XB4 Entry for B M Lynch, 1850. - occupation: Negro trader, see also 1860 census
- ^ a b c "Democratic Slave Markets (St. Louis, Mo.), T. W. Higginson, New York Tribune". The Liberator. 1856-08-01. p. 1. Retrieved 2023-08-25.
- ^ Stowe (1853), p. 356.
- ^ "Ellen Blackburn searching for her brothers Henry Perkins and George Washington (1st of 2 ads placed) · Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery". informationwanted.org. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
- ^ Fitzpatrick (2008), p. 29.
- ^ "Negroes - McAfee & Blakey". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 1854-08-04. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
- ^ Bancroft (2023), p. 140.
- ^ "History of Monroe and Shelby counties, Missouri ... including a history of their townships, towns, and villages ... c.1". HathiTrust. p. 379. hdl:2027/chi.44765475. Retrieved 2024-07-12.
- ^ "Died". Daily Missouri Republican. 1858-07-18. p. 2. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
- ^ Bancroft (2023), p. 141.
- ^ Bancroft (2023), pp. 136–137.
- ^ "Harriet, an infant v. Samuel T. McKenney". repository.wustl.edu. Retrieved 2024-10-13.
- ^ "From Rolla: An Interesting Phase of the Contraband Question". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 1861-12-07. p. 1. Retrieved 2024-10-12.
- ^ "The Kansas City Star 20 Sep 1908, page 15". Newspapers.com. Retrieved 2023-08-16.
- ^ Bruce, Henry Clay (1895). The New Man: Twenty-nine Years a Slave. Twenty-nine Years a Free Man. Recollections of H. C. Bruce. P. Anstadt & sons. pp. 103–104.
- ^ "Charlotte Summers looking for information about her daughter Anna Morrow (or Anna Chiles) · Last Seen: Finding Family After Slavery". informationwanted.org. Retrieved 2024-12-02.
- ^ Bancroft (2023), p. 378.
- ^ Bancroft (2023), pp. 143.
Sources
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- Colby, Robert K. D. (2024). An Unholy Traffic: Slave Trading in the Civil War South. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/oso/9780197578261.001.0001. ISBN 9780197578285. LCCN 2023053721. OCLC 1412042395.
- Fitzpatrick, Benjamin Lewis (December 2008). Negroes for Sale: The Slave Trade in Antebellum Kentucky (Ph.D. thesis). University of Notre Dame. doi:10.7274/pn89d50750n.
- Hedrick, Charles Embury (1927). Social and Economic Aspects of Slavery in the Transmontane Prior to 1850. Nashville, Tennessee: George Peabody College for Teachers.
- Stowe, Harriet Beecher (1853). A key to Uncle Tom's cabin: presenting the original facts and documents upon which the story is founded. Boston: J. P. Jewett & Co. LCCN 02004230. OCLC 317690900. OL 21879838M.
- Wong, Edlie L. (2009). "The Gender of Freedom before Dred Scott". Neither Fugitive nor Free: Atlantic Slavery, Freedom Suits, and the Legal Culture of Travel. Vol. 8. NYU Press. pp. 127–182. ISBN 978-0-8147-9455-5. JSTOR j.ctt9qgbb3.7.
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