Tag: Freedmans Bureau

• William Greenleaf Eliot

  

  Within two years, he would take in a Fugitive Slave from St. Charles County, and under that law, could have been jailed himself. However, he would instead assist that slave in achieving that freedom, an act that he said President Lincoln himself (who was a personal friend) helped in.

  Dorris Keeven-Franke

  January 23, 2023

  Freedom

  Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum, Camp Ethiopia, Freedmans Bureau, James B Yeatman, William Greenleaf Eliot