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"Sale of Estates, Pictures and Slaves in the Rotunda at New Orleans" by William Henry Brooke from The Slave States of America (1842) by James Silk Buckingham depicts a slave sale at the St. Louis Hotel, sometimes called the French Exchange. Slave traders traveled to farms and small towns to buy enslaved people to bring to market. [2]
In 1779, the market began at a flat meadow where farmers came to sell their goods. [1] [3] [4] It was the third public marketplace in St. Louis. [1]Antoine Soulard, who was born in 1766 in Rochefort, France, was an aristocrat and former French military officer who escaped France to avoid the consequences of the French Revolution.
White men pose, 104 Locust Street, St. Louis, Missouri in 1852 at Lynch's Slave Market. In the history of slavery in the United States, the domestic slave trade had become a major economic activity by 1815, and lasted until the 1860s. [31] Between 1830 and 1840, nearly 250,000 slaves were taken across state lines. [31]
Data from the St. Louis Fed suggests that this had a severe impact on housing inventory: New home builds had been on the rise in 2005, peaking in January 2006 with more than 2,200 housing units ...
The retired NBA legend's sprawling Highland Park estate has been on the market on and off since 2012 Reuters 1 month ago Realtors group forecasts US 30-year fixed-rate mortgage averaging 6% in 2025
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Lynch's Locust Street jail had previously been run by the slave trader John R. White and his partner Toomey; an 1848 ad promised "secure fastenings" for holding slaves ("B. M. Lynch - Successor to White & Tooley" St. Louis Post-Dispatch, September 11, 1848)