Aaron Dupuy, body servant of Henry Clay, stereocard

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Title

Aaron Dupuy, body servant of Henry Clay, stereocard

Subject

Slavery -- Kentucky; Clay, Henry, 1777-1852

Description

Aaron Dupuy was Henry Clay’s personal body slave and the husband of Charlotte Dupuy, who filed a freedom suit against Clay in 1829. Charlotte lost her suit, but was freed by Clay in 1840. Aaron was most likely freed following the death of Henry Clay in 1852. Henry Clay, known as the Great Compromiser, was a legislator from Kentucky and known as a founder of the American Colonization Society.

Creator

Unknown

Source

96m2, Henry Clay Memorial Foundation papers, Special Collections Research Center, University of Kentucky Libraries.

https://exploreuk.uky.edu/fa/findingaid/?id=xt751c1thm3n

Publisher

Unknown

Date

2019

Contributor

Special Collections Research Center, University of Kentucky Libraries

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Identifier

https://exploreuk.uky.edu/catalog/xt751c1thm3n_1128#page/2/mode/1up/search/dupuy

Coverage

(Unknown Temporal Coverage), Lexington, Kentucky