Originally posted on ArcherAlexander.blog:
In March of 1863, a fugitive slave named Archer Alexander, perhaps the last fugitive slave in St. Louis, had fled a lynch mob in Saint Charles County after exposing his owner’s sabotage of the local railroad bridge. Local Confederates had sawn the timbers, and were waiting for the next train…
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Missouri’s Emancipation Day
Originally posted on Missouri Germans Consortium:
AN ORDINANCE ABOLISHING SLAVERY IN MISSOURI Be it ordained by People of the State of Missouri, in Convention assembled That hereafter, in this State, there shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except in punishment of crime, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; and all persons held…
October 8, 1829 – the final entry
Originally posted on ArcherAlexander.blog:
The final entry of William M. Campbell’s journal* simply reads… Reached home* Missouri When Archer arrived in Dardenne Prairie in Saint Charles County on October 8th in 1829, he was 23 years old. Born in 1806, his parents Aleck and Chloe were the property of the Alexander family. He was…
German America Day 2020
Originally posted on German American Committee:
JOIN US!? TUESDAY – 1:00 PM OCTOBER 6, 2020 ONLINE CELEBRATION! https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88524194600 Keynote program: WHAT MAKES MISSOURI SO GERMAN?! Dorris Keeven-Franke, President German-American Committee and Missouri Germans Consortium, Executive Director In St. Louis, Missouri, one of the largest strongholds of German-American heritage, the German-American Committee of St. Louis, was…
1 & 2 October 1829 – Thirty-sixth and Thirty-seventh entry
Originally posted on ArcherAlexander.blog:
The Survey of U.S. Army Uniforms, Weapons and Accoutrements by David Cole 2007 William Campbell’s journal of his move to Missouri, written in 1829, tells us the story of fifty people both black and white. They left Rockbridge County, Virginia on August 20th, and travelled across today’s West Virginia, Kentucky,…
30 September 1829 – Thirty-fifth entry
Originally posted on ArcherAlexander.blog:
Forty one days ago, on August 20, 1829 William Campbell first wrote: I started from Lexington, Virginia on a journey to the state of Missouri. My own object in going to that remote section of the Union was to seek a place where I might obtain an honest livelihood by…
29 September 1829 – Thirty-fourth entry
Originally posted on ArcherAlexander.blog:
No sight can be more magnificent… These are the words of William Campbell writing with so much emotion, about the great plains the caravan is crossing. Campbell was a 24 year-old well-educated and well traveled young man, a lawyer, leading fifty people to Missouri from Virginia. He has amazed at…
28th September 1829 – Thirty-third entry
Originally posted on ArcherAlexander.blog:
The caravan completed its’ crossing of the state of Indiana and is starting across Illinois. America was on the move. They have come over 600 miles from Rockbridge County in Virginia on their own journey. These things are not on the mind of these fifty weary travelers, headed for Saint…
27 September 1829 – Thirty-second entry
Originally posted on ArcherAlexander.blog:
On the 27th of September the caravan is crossing Indiana. This is the journal of William Campbell, moving four families from Rockbridge County Virginia to Saint Charles County Missouri. The caravan is made up of just four families. Between the Alexander, McCluer and Wilson families, they own twenty-five people, half…
5 September 1829 – Eleventh Entry
Originally posted on ArcherAlexander.blog:
The Journey continues… This is the journal of William Campbell, leading four families, Alexander, McCluer, Wilson and Icenhower from Lexington, in Rockbridge County, Virginia to Dardenne Prairie, in Saint Charles County Missouri. It includes at least 25 enslaved people, including the enslaved Archer Alexander, who today is found on Washington,…
