List of Missouri slave traders
This is a list of slave traders working in Missouri from settlement until 1865:
- Atkinson & Richardson, Tennessee, Kentucky, and St. Louis, Mo.[1]
- Reuben Bartlett, St. Louis, Mo.[2] and Nashville[3]
- Brown & Taylor, Missouri and Vicksburg, Miss.[4][5]
- George P. Dorris, Platte County, Mo.[6]
- W. H. Gwin, St. Louis and Virginia[7]
- William Johnson, St. Louis, Mo.[8][9]
- Bernard M. Lynch, St. Louis[10][11][12]
- John Mattingly, Louisville, Ky.[13] and St. Louis, Mo.[11]
- A. B. McAfee, St. Louis, Mo.[2]
- McAfee & Blakey, St. Louis[14][15]
- M. Talbert, Liberty, Mo.[16]
- Corbin Thompson, St. Louis, Mo.[11]
- John Wheelan, Rolla, Mo.[17]
- White, Lexington, Mo.[18][19]
- John R. White, St. Louis and New Orleans[20]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "The death of Gen. George P. Dorris..." Newspapers.com. 1882-12-02. Retrieved 2024-10-21.
- ^ Colby (2024), p. 98.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Fitzpatrick (2008), p. 29.
- ^ "Negroes - McAfee & Blakey". St. Louis Globe-Democrat. 1854-08-04. p. 4. Retrieved 2023-12-03.
- ^ Bancroft (2023), p. 140.
- ^ "Died". Daily Missouri Republican. 1858-07-18. p. 2. Retrieved 2024-07-06.
- ^ "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.
- ^ Bancroft (2023), p. 378.
Sources
[edit]- Bancroft, Frederic (2023) [1931]. Slave Trading in the Old South. Southern Classics Series. Introduction by Michael Tadman. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 978-1-64336-427-8.
- 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.
