Tag: Louisa Alexander

• A Woman in the Shadow

  

  Louisa was born around 1810 to a woman enslaved by John McCluer, a Scotch-Irish Presbyterian elder in Rockbridge County, Virginia, who was also her father. When McCluer’s daughter Nancy married James Alexander in 1820, Louisa would meet Alexander’s enslaved man named Archer Alexander. Louisa and Archer would marry …

  Dorris Keeven-Franke

  March 9, 2023

  Freedom

  Archer Alexander, Bellefontaine Cemetery and Arboretum, James Alexander, James Naylor, John McCluer, Louisa Alexander, Muhammad Ali, Richard Pitman, Sophie McCluer, St. Peters UCC, Wesley Alexander, William Campbell, William Greenleaf Eliot

• 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

  ArcherAlexander

  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