A Forgotten Few St Clair Co Missouri
A friend of mine told me he was going to get his tractor and go to the field to get some work done. He said but first hand me that big hammer. I asked him what he needed the hammer for and he said he was going to beat his tractor up first and then go to the fields. I know humor isn't the place when talking about slavery but let's be real and look at it from all angles. It doesn't make any sense of harming your tractor before using it just as it made no sense in beating a slave and expecting him to work afterwards. know
The great Cromwell ordered 2,000 Irish children taken to Jamaica and sold as slaves.
The British government had realized as early as the 1640's how beneficial White slave labor was to the profiting colonial Plantations. Slavery was instituted as early as 1627 in the British West Indies. The Calendar of State Papers, Colonial Series of 1701 records 25,000 slaves in Barbados in which 21,7000 were White slaves.
He took the Arsenal and then marched near 700 of the captured Missouri militiamen through the streets of St. Louis. This prompted a riot in which Captain Lyon had his men fire into the crowd of civilians. He killed 28 which was comprised of men, women and children and wounded more that 100.
Capt. Lyon and his men continued the murder and destruction for nearly a week. and this was against the civilians of Missouri then still a part of the United States
Captain Lyon soon received a promotion to Brigadier General from Lincoln and 2 July 18611,
This became known as the Camp Jackson Massacre or the St. Louis Massacre.