Abolitionist
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His early years in St. Louis would soon find him caught between the two forces of the rising conflict regarding the issues of enslavement…
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When Lincoln, a personal friend to Eliot, was assassinated, the formerly enslaved wanted a monument to Lincoln, and St. Louis’ former slave, Archer Alexander would be the one, to represent them, rising up and as Eliot says “breaking his own chains”.
ARCHER ALEXANDER 