Juliette
“Juliette”. n.d, WashU & Slavery, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/washu-slavery/item/47780
- Name
- Juliette
- Description
- Juliette was born and raised in the family of Antoine Chenie, who sold her, through Lucien Dumaine, to Henry Shaw on May 20, 1836, when she was about twenty-one years old. Juliette remained enslaved until she obtained freedom from Shaw at about the age of 23 on April 24, 1839.
- Bio
- Juliette was born and raised in the family of Antoine Chenie, who sold her, through Lucien Dumaine, to Henry Shaw on May 20, 1836, when she was about twenty-one years old. Juliette remained enslaved until she obtained freedom from Shaw at about the age of 23 on April 24, 1839.
- Birth Date
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1815
Value Annotations
- Date Certainty
- Approximate
- Sex
- Female
- Referred to in
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Bill of sale for purchase of female enslaved person, Juliette, by Henry Shaw in 1836.
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Henry Shaw v. Benjamin Lawhead - Assault and battery
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Record of manumission (freeing) of Juliette by Henry Shaw, 1839.
- Enslaver
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Henry Shaw
“Juliette”. n.d, WashU & Slavery, accessed February 11, 2026, https://digitalexhibits.library.wustl.edu/s/washu-slavery/item/47780