Well it Look like it’s the old ghost of the past that is still haunting St. Louis. The east entrance to the St. Louis courthouse. It was here on these steps that slaves were often sold. St. Louis was the biggest slave market in Missouri. Slave patrols operated throughout the city constantly on the lookout for runaways or unlawful conduct by slaves. Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing states, yet no part of our slave-holding country is more noted for the barbarity of its inhabitants than St. Louis.--William Wells Brown, former slave. I wonder if he is any relation to Michael Brown.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 03:15:27 +0000
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