Sarah
“Sarah”. n.d, WashU & Slavery, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/washu-slavery/item/47779
- Name
- Sarah
- Description
- Sarah, the daughter of Tabitha, was sold with her mother and brother, Joseph, to Henry Shaw on November 7, 1848, when she was about nine years old.
- Bio
- Sarah, the daughter of Tabitha, was sold with her mother and brother, Joseph, to Henry Shaw on November 7, 1848, when she was about nine years old.
- Birth Date
-
1839
Value Annotations
- Date Certainty
- Approximate
-
1835
Value Annotations
- Date Certainty
- Questionable
- Source
-
1850 Slave Inhabitant Schedule, St. Louis Central South Half, Henry Shaw
- Inferred that Sarah, who was about 11 according to other documents, is the 15-year-old recorded in the 1850 Slave Schedule.
- Sex
- Female
- Referred to in
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Bill of sale for purchase of enslaved persons Joseph, Tabitha, and her daughter Sarah by Henry Shaw in 1848
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1850 Slave Inhabitant Schedule, St. Louis Central South Half, Henry Shaw
- Enslaver
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Henry Shaw
Linked resources
“Sarah”. n.d, WashU & Slavery, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/washu-slavery/item/47779
