Slave Girl: The Trial (Lydias Path #2)
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In , slave patrols were also organized in Liberty and in other County townships, such as Fishing River and Gallatin. Although slaves roamed freely on their Masters' farms and plantations and in Clay's towns and villages, so as to complete their daily chores, slaves found after curfew without a pass or permission from their masters were considered truant and punished by public officials. Other early Clay County Court decisions dealt with issues of slavery.
Joseph Collett, a free "man of color", purchased his wife Hannah and her two children, America and Eliza, and freed them through the Court in May of A year later in , the first slave was hung when the County Court sentenced Annice, owned by a Mr. Prior, for the murder of her two children and the attempted murder of a third child. During the early decades of Clay County's organization and settlement, migrating Southerners found the local environment adaptable to the Blue Grass and Nashville Basin systems of agriculture.
These methods of farming, as in Kentucky and Tennessee, were dependent on slave labor, diversified farming, the raising of cash crops and traditional Southern livestock, and the selling of its agricultural goods in the Deep South.
Many of Clay's farmers grew cotton, tobacco, and hemp, and raised pigs, horses, and mules for commercial profit. As early as , reports had reached St. Louis that 25, pounds of cotton was successfully cultivated in central and western Missouri. Just three years later, in , the first hemp crop was planted in Clay County. By , Clay's borders were included in the "region of the hemp culture" which was also the seat of Missouri's tobacco district. In , Clay County produced 20, pounds of the "brown gold" tobacco.
Inspired by their success, Clay's farmers and planters believed that "great prosperity could be gained" from tobacco's extensive planting. Other slave owning Clay Countians found that marketing their Missouri pork, horses, and mules in the Deep South was a lucrative trade.
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For example, in James S. Darwin Adkins, also of Clay County, found large profits in the trade of horses and mules in Louisiana and Mississippi. While livestock and cash crops were important to most Clay County agrarians, large quantities of corn were also necessary for the feeding of both people and animals. Clay County planters J. Hall, Abijah Withers, and Michael Arthur were among the County's largest corn growers and raised between 5, and 15, bushels of corn each in Thompson, Hall, Withers, and Arthur were also some of Clay's largest plantation owners, having 1, or more acres and between 20 and 40 slaves each.
Merchants also benefited from Clay County's agricultural success and slave dependency. For example, businessmen Robert G.
Gilmer and John D. Holt housed and shipped tens of thousands of dollars of Clay's cash crops from their Richfield Missouri City "mammoth" sized warehouses. Both men were slave owners; Gilmer owned 6 slaves in and Holt 5. Other Southerners in Clay County entered into a business trade manufacturing cotton and hemp products. Jonathan Atkins owned a cotton gin and Waltus Watkins a cotton carding and spinning mill.
Clay's important hemp manufacturers were Lightburne, Wymore, Burris and Arthur; Michael Arthur was also the County's most important slave dealer. Arthur and other Clay Countians enjoyed a lucrative business in slave trading in Clay County. By , Clay County was a model of a great commercial agricultural economy, a vision promoted by Southern slave owners and Presidents Jefferson and Jackson. By the outbreak of the Civil War, Clay's population had swelled to 13, with In , the Federal Census reported that Clay County ranked 7th among Missouri's counties Footnote 1 for the highest "Cash value of farms," 8th among the counties with the most plantation owners Footnote 2 , 9th in hemp production, 10th for the largest slave population, 10th in corn production, and 12th for the most slaveholders in the State.
Slaves in Clay County received the brunt of the brutalities of the Civil War, as the County's strong Southern sympathies and culture brought a plague of unwanted Union occupations and guerrilla warfare. Some whites, whether local or from other areas, viewed slaves as the cause of the war. An example of this belief is exemplified by the senseless murder of a slave owned by Abijah Withers. In the summer of , unknown assailants shot a male slave owned by Withers just "for fun" as he was returning from a delivery trip to Liberty.
Other slaves were also murdered in Clay County from , such as a male slave owned by Mrs.
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Richard Price who suffered inhumanely when he was assassinated in August By the end of the year , an unknown number of slaves were killed at the hands of both Northern and Southern patriots. Not only did slaves live in daily fear of being murdered during the Civil War in Clay County, they also did not know if they would be captured by guerrillas, sold off, or moved further south for safe keeping.
Jayhawkers from Kansas pillaged the Clay County countryside and made off with at least a hundred slaves with the idea of holding them for ransom, trading them for goods in Kansas, or selling them. Some of Clay's masters also sold their slaves as they realized their investment in human flesh was quickly shrinking; an example is when John W. Some of Clay County's slaves did escape to freedom, only to be returned back into bondage with the assistance of Union officials. By , the County's population had dropped to 11, people.
In that same year, only The majority of the slaves in were women, so it can be assumed that many of Clay's African American men either joined the Union army or escaped. For example, during January a "considerable numbers" of Clay's slaves crossed the river into Kansas. By , many of Clay's slaves knew all to well that once a slave had successfully escaped into Kansas and established residency, in the ex-slave towns and villages like Quinderro, Kansas, "he was practically as free as if he had his deed of emancipation in his pockets.
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Freedom finally arrived for Clay County's slaves when the Missouri legislature passed the State's slave emancipation act on January 11, Known as "Manumission Day," slavery ended all across the state. In the Federal Census, Missouri reported counties. Missouri has counties, the missing county being the "City of St.
Louis was included in St. Louis County for the Federal Census. The accepted definition of what constitutes a "plantation" is a slave owner who owns 20 slaves or more. Some historians and academics have also required that a plantation be made up of acres or more, the number of acres required for self-sufficiency. Most of the buildings I mention are standing today, some open to the public. The Collection by Penelope Syn 4. The Alpha by Penelope Syn liked it 3. Dominant Displays 1 by Penelope Syn 3. Dominance and Submission 2 by Penelope Syn 3.
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While livestock and cash crops were important to most Clay County agrarians, large quantities of corn were also necessary for the feeding of both people and animals. Most of the buildings I mention are standing today, some open to the public. Theodosia to Leonidas M. McClintock, struck her in the head with an ax in an attempt to kill her. In , George and Mary's estate including its slaves are sold. Research and Photographs by Gary Gene Fuenfhausen. In , Clay County produced 20, pounds of the "brown gold" tobacco.
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