Abolitionist
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September focuses on those who chose to refuse enslavement of people, either of themselves or of others. The National Park Service program, enacted by Congress in 1998, began listing documented sites, programs, and resources for those researching the Network to Freedom, also known as the Underground Railroad. “This program honors, preserves and promotes the history of…
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The story of how the Emancipation Memorial came to be, as shared by James Yeatman at the dedication on April 14,1876.
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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”.
