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, Louisiana, North America. 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

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. Kenner was a Virginian by birth. Their clients included planters like Kenner's father-in-law, Stephen Minor of

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. Kenner and Henderson ordered all manner of supplies for their planter clients, including new slaves from the

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region of the United States. During the 1828 U.S. presidential election, opponents of

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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

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." In 1806 the company announced the sale of "74 prime slaves of the Fantee nation on board the schooner ''Reliance''...from Charleston." Slaves from a

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plantation owned by Kenner and Henderson were involved in the

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. The Kenner and Henderson partnership was dissolved in 1811.

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Pre-statehood history of Louisiana Slave-trading companies of the United States History of slavery in Louisiana Defunct companies based in Louisiana 1811 disestablishments in the United States Cotton factors Andrew Jackson {{US-history-stub

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