WashU & Slavery Events

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• Emancipation of Peter Ware

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• Emancipation of Eliza

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• 1856-04-15, Manumission of Lydia

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• 1855-05-21: Payment for the Capture of Esther

  Henry Shaw pays Bernard M. Lynch $100 for capturing Esther, who had escaped to Illinois, and returning her to St. Louis.
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  1852-03-06 Bill of Sale of Esther to Henry Shaw

  The document is a bill of sale of Esther to Henry Shaw. The document describes Esther to be of 41 years of age and to have been previously enslaved by John Brown, now deceased, and then by Ludowig Finkman, the father-in-law of John Knippenberg, who is selling Esther to Henry Shaw at 400 dollars.
• 1850-04-15, Transfer of Lydia

  John H. Kasson transfers Lydia to William Greenleaf Eliot for $600.
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  1838-04-03: Bridgette sold to Henry Shaw

  Henry Shaw pays $500 to enslave Bridgette, an 18-year-old mulatto woman. Bridgette is described to be family of Antoine Chenie.