WashU & Slavery Records

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  Bill of sale for purchase of enslaved persons Joseph, Tabitha, and her daughter Sarah by Henry Shaw in 1848

  Bill of sale for purchase of enslaved persons Joseph, Tabitha, and her daughter Sarah by Henry Shaw in 1848. For the price of 1050 dollars, they were sold by Thomas H. Purnell to Henry Shaw.
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  Bill of sale for Esther, 1852

  Bill of sale for Esther, an enslaved black woman to Henry Shaw
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  Bill of sale for Bridgette by Henry Shaw, 3 April 1838

  Bill of sale for Bridgette, a mulatto woman of 18 years of age, enslaved by Henry Shaw on April 3rd, 1838.
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  1860 Slave Schedule [Pierre Chouteau Jr]
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  1860 Slave Inhabitant Schedule, St. Louis Township, Henry Shaw
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  1855 tax statement (personal property tax) to the City of Saint Louis from Henry Shaw stating his ownership of four enslaved persons.
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  1854 tax statement (personal property tax) to the City of Saint Louis from Henry Shaw stating his ownership of ten enslaved persons.
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  1853 tax statement (personal property tax) to the City of Saint Louis from Henry Shaw stating his ownership of 11 enslaved persons.
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  1850 Slave Inhabitant Schedule, St. Louis Central South Half, Henry Shaw
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  $300 reward advertisement placed by Henry Shaw for Jim, previously enslaved by Shaw, who escaped

  This newspaper ad was published in the Missouri Republican on May 25, 1855. Henry Shaw places a $300 reward for Jim, who, according to the ad, calls himself Jim Kennerly, who was enslaved by Shaw but escaped. Jim is described to have aged about twenty as of 1855, about five(?) feet six inches tall: rather stout made, mild spoken, intelligent, and called himself Jim Kennerly.
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  [Manette]

  Emancipation record for Manette and her children Lizzy and Theresa, registered in the St. Louis Circuit Court Saturday, April 26, 1856.