In 1841, 4 black menM Henderson, A Warrick, J Seward, and C Brown were put on trial; convicted and sentenced to death. They were hanged on July 9, 1841. Tickets for a steamboat excursion to watch the executions on Duncan's Island, sold for $1.50 to about 20,000 people, or 75 percent of St. Louis's population at the time. *With rising tension of race/ slavery it ended with the severed heads of the four hung in the front window of Corse's Drug Store to deter Black resistance
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