The 2017 Annual Lecture will be presented by Dr. Kenneth Winn, Historian and Former Archivist of the State of Missouri.
During the 1850s St. Louis’s preeminent slave trader Bernard Lynch handled the trade for St. Louis’s elite. While Lynch sold slaves locally, he sold more “down the river” to places like Natchez and New Orleans. Most wealthy St. Louisans became involved with slavery in one manner or another, including. Robert Campbell. This talk unveils previously unknown information about Bernard Lynch’s pernicious trade, and puts Robert Campbell’s slaveholding into the context of its time.
St. Louis Public Library, Central Auditorium
1301 Olive Street (please use the Locust St. entrance)
Saint Louis, MO 63103
All metered parking is free on Sundays.
THANK YOU TO THE ST. LOUIS PUBLIC LIBRARY FOR BEING THE VENUE SPONSOR FOR THIS LECTURE.
