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Map and view of St. Louis, 1848. This is a list of slave traders working in Missouri from settlement until 1865: . Jim Adams, Missouri and New Orleans [1]; Atkinson & Richardson, Tennessee, Kentucky, and St. Louis, Mo. [2]
John W. Chaffin: Newspapers.com: The Liberator: 1831–1865: Boston, Massachusetts: William Lloyd Garrison, Isaac Knapp: Digital Commonwealth (Garrison's copy) * Newspapers.com: National Anti-Slavery Standard [5] 1840–1870 Philadelphia, New York City Lydia Maria Child, David Lee Child: Newspapers.com (1840–1852) The National Era [6] 1847 ...
A front page of the Kansas City Sun from 1914. This is a list of African American newspapers that have been published in the state of Missouri. It includes both current and historical newspapers. The first known African American newspaper in Missouri was the Welcome Friend of St. Louis, which was in circulation by 1870. [1]
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat was a daily print newspaper based in St. Louis, Missouri, from 1852 until 1986.The paper began operations on July 1, 1852, as The Daily Missouri Democrat, changing its name to The Missouri Democrat in 1868, [1] then to The St. Louis Democrat in 1873. [2]
Kansas City Times (1867–1990) [13] Missouri Democrat St. Louis (1858) [14] Osage County Volksblatt ... (Survey of local news existence and ownership in 21st century)
Felix & Odile Pratt Valle slave quarters, southeast corner of Merchant & Second Streets, Sainte Genevieve, Missouri. The history of slavery in Missouri began in 1720, predating statehood, with the large-scale slavery in the region, when French merchant Philippe François Renault brought about 500 slaves of African descent from Saint-Domingue up the Mississippi River to work in lead mines in ...
Antebellum city directories from slave states can be valuable primary sources on the trade; slave dealers listed in the 1855 directory of Memphis, Tennessee, included Bolton & Dickens, Forrest & Maples operating at 87 Adams, Neville & Cunningham, and Byrd Hill Slave depots, including ones owned by Mason Harwell and Thomas Powell, listed in the ...
Other cases of the Reverse Underground Railroad in Illinois occurred in the southwestern and western parts of the state, along the Mississippi River bordering the slave state of Missouri. In 1860, John and Nancy Curtis were arrested for trying to kidnap their own freed slaves in Johnson County, Illinois to sell back into slavery in Missouri. [10]