Missouri's Black History: From Colonial Times to 1970
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Missouri's Black History: From Colonial Times to 1970
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Description of black Saint Louis slave Dred Scott (subject of a famous antebellum slavery trial) and emancipation from slavery from an article about the history of black people in Missouri.
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Creator: Corbett, Katharine T.
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1983
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Gateway Heritage
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The Missouri General Assembly declared all slaves in Missouri free on January 11, 1865, eleven months before the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution which ended slavery nationwide. To celebrate the Assembly's declaration hundreds of St. Louis blacks gathered in the streets to wave banners and flags.
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Restriction on Access
This document is not available online. You may come to the Missouri Valley Room to view it or request a photocopy from the Library's Document Delivery service. http://www.kclibrary.org/copy-requests
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