Missouri Governor Mike Parson has posthumously pardoned former Missouri slave Celia Newsom, who was executed in 1855 for ...

LOUIS – Missouri Governor Mike Parson announced several pardons and commutations on Friday, including a posthumous pardon for a former Missouri slave that ... from St. Louis County who had ...

Celia's descendants made it their mission to fight for the pardon after getting support from lawmakers and community groups ...

Popular contemporary ideas about frontier life are often molded by television and movie Westerns. The generic landscapes tend ...

Maryland lost 1 in 320 of the whole number of her slaves; Missouri, 1 in 1,450; Kentucky, 1 in 2,100; Georgia, 1 in 2,700, and Louisiana, 1 in 4,000. Since the date of these statistics the number ...

the pro-slavery forced burned houses,” the authors wrote. Later that year, Montgomery, armed with a small force and list of Missourians responsible for the raids, supposedly took possession of a home ...

Tubman was born a slave in Maryland's Dorchester County around 1820 ... Tubman had made the perilous trip to slave country 19 times by 1860, including one especially challenging journey in ...

On November 6, 1860 Abraham Lincoln was ... Kentucky, and Missouri -- President Lincoln insisted that the war was not about slavery or black rights; it was a war to preserve the Union.

Slaves number 5,729, about 25 percent, free Negroes 829, or about 3.7 percent. Of 140 black households, 19, or 13.6 percent, own slaves. The decline in the number of slaves in Loudoun County ...