Up until about a decade ago, Andy Hahn, executive director of the Campbell House Museum, believed that prominent 19th-century St. Louisans Robert and Virginia Campbell had never enslaved people at the St. Louis mansion that bears their name.
But recent research told a different story. Eliza Rone was enslaved by the Campbells by 1845, six years before their home was constructed 鈥� a new detail only revealed by a St. Louis census conducted around that time.
Now, Rone鈥檚 story is told in a new museum exhibit, 鈥淭he Back of the House: Servants and Slavery at Campbell House.鈥�
On Thursday鈥檚 St. Louis on the Air, Hahn shared Rone鈥檚 story and other details about servants and enslaved people at the historic Downtown West St. Louis home.
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When: Through Dec. 31
Where: 1508 Locust St., St. Louis, MO 63103
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