Kenner and Henderson was a cotton and slave brokerage and financial clearing house based in New Orleans, Louisiana, North America. Their clients included planters like Kenner's father-in-law, Stephen Minor of Natchez.[1][2]: 358 The principals were William Kenner and Stephen Henderson, and Kenner and Henderson was an elite company that served an elite clientele and was one of the most prosperous organizations in New Orleans before the War of 1812.[1] Kenner was a Virginian by birth.[2]: 358
Kenner and Henderson ordered all manner of supplies for their planter clients, including new slaves from the Chesapeake region of the United States.[1] During the 1828 U.S. presidential election, opponents of Andrew Jackson seeking to publicize his background as a slave trader published pamphlets describing slave-trading deals allegedly made by Jackson. One such instance allegedly involving Kenner and Henderson was described by Andrew Erwin: "Nor is it necessary to dwell upon a dispute between yourself and Epperson, which was referred ·to the arbitration of Judge Haywood and Judge Overton, respecting a negro fellow you bought for the express purpose of selling to Kenner and Henderson at New Orleans, expecting to obtain for him the enormous sum of $2,000, provided you could procure the certificate of D. Moore, and others, as to his being a good blacksmith."[3]: 18
Slaves from a sugar plantation owned by Kenner and Henderson were involved in the 1811 German Coast uprising.[4] The Kenner and Henderson partnership was dissolved in 1811.[2]: 359
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edit- ^ a b c Clark, John Garretson (1970). New Orleans, 1718–1812: an economic history. Internet Archive. Baton Rouge, Louisiana State University Press. pp. 306 (Minor), 310 (largest in Nola), 318 (slave trade), 335 (elite). ISBN 978-0-8071-0346-3.
- ^ a b c Bauer, Craig A. (1982). "From Burnt Canes to Budding City: A History of the City of Kenner, Louisiana". Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association. 23 (4): 353–381. ISSN 0024-6816.
- ^ Erwin, Andrew; McNairy, Boyd; Greene, H.; Weakley, R.; Blythe, S. K.; Tannehill, Wilkins (1828). A Brief Account of General Jackson's Dealings in Negroes in a Series of Letters and Documents by His Own Neighbors. [National Republican Party of New York State]. via Tennessee State Library and Archives
- ^ Bacon-Blood, Littice (2011-01-04). "The largest slave revolt in U.S. history is commemorated". NOLA.com. Retrieved 2024-09-18.
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