Tag: Barton Bates

• What would you do?

  

  Imagine yourself enslaved in a state that is caught between two hostile forces. On a cold winter’s night in Missouri in January 1863, Archer Alexander overheard his enslaver Richard Pitman holding a secret meeting in the back room of the local Postmaster and storeowner James Naylor, in his mercantile on the Boone’s Lick Road in…

  Dorris Keeven-Franke

  July 19, 2022

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  Archer Alexander, Barton Bates, Boone's Lick Road, Edward Bates, Emancipation Memorial, James Naylor, Louisa Alexander, Richard Hickman Pitman, St. Charles County, St. Louis, William Greenleaf Eliot