BRONZE PLAQUE HONORS COUNTLESS ENSLAVED BLACK AMERICANS INHUMANELY TRAFFICKED BY SLAVE TRADER BERNARD LYNCH IN DOWNTOWN ST. LOUIS

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Bronze plaque honors countless enslaved black Americans.
This group includes Rasheen Aldridge, Jr., Trish Gunby, Mayor Cara Spencer, Missouri Historical Society President, Jody Sowell, and Washington University Professor, Geoff Ward.
This group includes Rasheen Aldridge, Jr., Trish Gunby, Mayor Cara Spencer, Missouri Historical Society President, Jody Sowell, and Washington University Professor, Geoff Ward.
Bernard Lynch Slave Pen plaque.
Bernard Lynch Plaque installed on the corner of Broadway and Clark in downtown St. Louis, MO. (ECU 1)
Bernard Lynch Plaque installed on the corner of Broadway and Clark in downtown St. Louis, MO. (ECU 2)
Bernard Lynch Plaque installed on the corner of Broadway and Clark in downtown St. Louis, MO.
MO State Archive's slave sale ad
Image from The Journal of the Civil War Era

Additional reading:

https://www.journalofthecivilwarera.org/2022/03/the-remarkable-story-of-mattie-j-jackson/lynchs-slave-pen/

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-emancipation-finally-came-slave-markets-took-redemptive-purpose-180968260/

https://www.stlpr.org/show/st-louis-on-the-air/2021-01-28/lynchs-slave-pens-in-shadow-of-busch-stadium-will-get-historical-marker

https://www.stlouis-mo.gov/government/departments/mayor/news/on-the-map-lynchs-slave-pens.cfm

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