Missouri

Saint Clair Dimmitt home
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"Built c. 1848-50s, Liberty, Missouri, the Dimmitt House slave quarters and kitchen has two-rooms, back to back, and a central chimney with fireplaces (or a flue for stoves) that serviced both rooms. The Dimmitt quarter, built in this saddlebag form, is the "second major building type used" for the big house kitchen. Usually, the two-room structure served as a quarter for a slave cook and her family sharing one room while the other was used for food preparation. The Dimmitt house's slave quarters and kitchen represents a better class of building, being built of bricks rather than common log construction."             
                                                                        Source: http://littledixie.net/slavery_in_clay_county.htm

Dimmitt Slave Quarters

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Slave owners in Missouri

Bracken County Missouri - 1850

Robert P. Dimmit

45	Male	Black
27	Female	Black
18	Female	Black
14	Female	Black
7	Female	Black
2	Female	Black
16	Male	Black
13	Male	Black

Marion County Missouri - 1850

Louisa C(?) Dimmitt

50	Female	Black
30	Female	Black
26	Female	Mulatto	Fugitive
24	Male	Black
22	Male	Mulatto	Fugitive
13	Female	Black
11	Male	Black
11	Female	Black
6	Male	Mulatto	Fugitive
5	Male	Black

Ralls County Missouri - 1850

James S. Dimmitt

68	Female	Black
47	Male	Black
30	Male	Black
30	Female	Black
24	Male	Black
19	Male	Black
22	Female	Black
12	Male	Black
13	Female	Black
19	Male	Black
6	Male	Black
3/12	Male	Black
6	Female	Black
3	Male	Mulatto
1	Female	Mulatto

Nathaniel Dimmitt

38	Female	Black
17	Male	Black
11	Female	Black
6	Male	Black
2	Female	Black

Ralls County Missouri - 1860

James S. Dimmitt - 3 Slave Quarters

80	Female	Black
60	Male	Black
40	Female	Black
40	Male	Black
33	Female	Black	Fugitive
18	Male	Black
20	Female	Black
17	Female	Black	Fugitive
14	Male	Black
13	Male	Mulatto	Fugitive
11	Female	Mulatto
10	Female	Mulatto	Fugitive
7	Male	Mulatto	Fugitive
3	Male	Mulatto	Fugitive
3	Male	Black
2	Male	Mulatto	Fugitive
1	Male	Black
6/12	Male	Mulatto	Fugitive
6/12	Female	Black
30	Male	Black

Nathaniel Dimmitt

45	Male	Black
28	Female	Black
27	Male	Black
13	Female	Black
10	Female	Black

L. Dimmitt

35

Female

Black

Shelby County Missouri 

Dr. Phillip Dimmitt

"...He practiced at Boonville for four years and then removed to Shelbyville, where he continued the practice for 14 years.  Having a number of slaves whom he wished to have employed and not desiring to sell them or hire them out, he for that reason located on a farm."  Source: History of Monroe and Shelby Counties, Missouri 

African American Dimmit's in Missouri

Missouri
Braxton Dimmit	September 1840 - Missouri		Home in 1900: Lee, Polk Iowa. Married: Rachel Dimmitt Married: 1860 Father: Missouri Mother: Virginia

Additional Missouri history

Saint Clair Dimmitt lived in Clay county Missouri, at a time of great religious unrest.  The Missouri militia had taken the Mormon Prophet Joseph Smith through deceit and betrayal.  The following articles explain the troubles that Dimmitt was certainly aware of, and possibly even embroiled in: 

"Soon after Missouri governor Lilburn W. Boggs issued his Mormon Extermination Order of 27 October 1838, which declared that “the Mormons must be treated as enemies and must be exterminated or driven from the state” (History of the Church, 3:175), Brigadier General Alexander W. Doniphan received the following order from his superior officer:

“You will take Joseph Smith and the other prisoners into the public square of Far West, and shoot them at 9 o’clock to-morrow morning.”

To this command, General Doniphan replied: “It is cold-blooded murder. I will not obey your order. My brigade shall march for Liberty tomorrow morning, at 8 o’clock; and if you execute these men, I will hold you responsible before an earthly tribunal, so help me God” (ibid., 190–91)."  Source: https://www.lds.org/ensign/1995/01/news-of-the-church/missouri-honors-man-who-refused-order-to-kill-the-prophet-joseph-smith?lang=eng

Doniphan also lived in Clay county, and was also a slave owner.  

"Eliza Jane, to Alexander Doniphan (from Kentucky), who owned 5 slaves in 1860 living in 1 slave house. "                                                                                              Source:  http://littledixie.net/slavery_in_clay_county.htm

History of slavery in Missouri

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The history of slavery in Missouri began in 1720, when a man named Philippe Francois Renault brought about 500 negro slaves from Saint-Domingue to work in lead mines in the River des Peres area, located in the present-day St. Louis and Jefferson counties.

The institution only became prominent in the area following two major events: the Louisiana Purchase (1803) and the invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney (1793). This led to a mass movement of slave-owning proprietors to the area of present-day Missouri and Arkansas, then known as Upper Louisiana. However, the major spread of cotton cultivation was limited to the more southerly area, near the border with present-day Arkansas. Slavery in the other areas of Missouri was concentrated in other major crops and agricultural industries, such as tobacco, hemp, grain, and livestock. A number of slaves were hired out as stevedores, cabin boys, or deck hands for the ferries of the Mississippi River.

The majority of slave owners in Missouri came from the worn-out agricultural lands of North Carolina, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Virginia. By 1860, only 36 counties in Missouri had 1,000 or more slaves, Top male slaves fetched a price of $1,300 ($34,238 as of 2016),^[1] and top female slaves brought about $1,000 ($26,337 as of 2016).^[1] The value of all the slaves in Missouri was estimated by the State Auditor's 1860 report at approximately US $44,181,912 ($1,163,620,653 as of 2016).^[1]

Slave codes[edit]

The territorial slave code was enacted in 1804, a year after the Louisiana Purchase, under which slaves were banned from the use of firearms, participation in unlawful assemblies, or selling alcoholic beverages to other slaves. It also severely punished slaves for participating in riots, insurrections, or disobedience of their masters. It also provided for punishment by mutilation of a slave who sexually assaulted a white woman; a white man who sexually assaulted a female slave was charged with trespassing upon her owner's property.

The code was retained by the State Constitution of 1820.

At the end of 1824, the Missouri General Assembly passed a law providing a process for enslaved persons to sue for freedom and have some protections in the process.

An 1825 law passed by the General Assembly declared Blacks as incompetent as witnesses in legal cases which involved Whites, and testimonies by black witnesses were automatically invalidated.

In 1847, an ordinance banning the education of blacks and mulattoes was enacted. Anyone caught teaching a black or mulatto person, whether enslaved or free, was to be fined $500 and serve six months in jail.

Abolitionism[edit]

Elijah Lovejoy edited a controversial abolitionist newspaper, the Observer, in St. Louis, before being driven out by a mob. He fled across the Mississippi River to Alton, Illinois.

As one of the border states, Missouri was exempt from President Abraham Lincoln's 1863 Emancipation Proclamation decreeing the freedom of slaves in all territory then held by Confederate forces.

Governor Thomas C. Fletcher ended slavery in Missouri on January 11, 1865, by executive proclamation.