Floating 'Freedom School' on the Mississippi River in 1800s

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John Berry Meachum and his followers created a “floating school” – also called the “Freedom School” – on a steamboat anchored in the Mississippi ...

Floating Freedom School - Wikipedia

The Floating Freedom School was an educational facility for free and enslaved African Americans on a steamboat on the Mississippi River.

Missouri's Civil Rights Stories: The Floating Freedom School

When the classes at the church were shut down, Meachum equipped a steamboat with desks and chairs, anchored the boat in the Mississippi River – ...

Learning about the Floating Freedom School - YouTube

An interview with Gary Kremer, executive director of the State Historical Society of Missouri, about Rev. John Berry Meachum and the ...

How a floating school bypassed racist laws in pre-Civil War St. Louis

It was called the Freedom School and became known as the Floating Freedom School. Because the Mississippi River was under the purview of the ...

DAY 1 — John Berry Meachum & the Floating Freedom School

Until at least 1860, 13 years after its commission, the Floating Freedom School remained moored in the Mississippi River. Unfortunately though, ...

Steamboat School - ReaderKidZ

A “Floating Freedom School” held on a steamboat in the middle of the Mississippi River. ... Louis in the the early to mid-1800's, STEAMBOAT SCHOOL ...

Durst, Reverend John Berry Meachum - Princeton University

Technically, the Floating Freedom School, located in a federal space (the Mississippi River) and a marginal area separating a free from a slave state, did not ...

John Barry and Mary Meachum and the Floating Freedom School

John Barry and Mary Meachum and the Floating Freedom School ; Art Speaks: Black Craftspeople, Objects, and the Southern Landscape. Saint Louis ...

John Berry Meachum (1789-1854) • - Blackpast

Meachum responded by equipping a steamboat with a library, desks, and chairs and opened the “Floating Freedom School” on the Mississippi River ...

When Education On Land Was Outlawed, He Created A Floating ...

Reverend Meachum decided to buy a steamboat and anchor it in the middle of the Mississippi River, beyond Missouri jurisdiction. All it needed was some desks, ...

Mississippi Steamboats: Enslavement and Freedom

In Steamboats: Enslavement and Freedom, students will learn the role that steamboats played in the continued enslavement of black people in the ...

How Mary Meachum helped many slaves escape Missouri slavery

The two also opened a makeshift school aboard a boat docked in the federally-regulated Mississippi River, floating just outside the state's ...

19th Century St. Louis, Missouri. - Document - Gale Academic OneFile

Freedom schools need not have been located anymore on the Mississippi River. ... floating freedom school in the mid-1840s (Durst 2004, 2). Apparently ...

Literacy By Any Means Necessary: The History of Anti-Literacy Laws ...

He devised a plan to reopen the school through other means outside of the jurisdiction of the state. Using a steamboat on the Mississippi River, ...

We Should Never Forget Why We Needed A Floating Freedom School

Louis Stampede,” Mary Meachum tried to help 8–9 enslaved Black people cross the Mississippi River to be free in the state of Illinois. However, ...

All Aboard the Mary Meachum, the Newest Saint Louis Zoo ...

When the state of Missouri made it illegal in 1847 for Blacks to receive education, the couple moved the school aboard a steamboat on the ...

John Berry Meachum, a highly skilled craftsman used his trade to ...

Meachum responded by equipping a steamboat with a library, desks, and chairs and opened the “Floating Freedom School” on the Mississippi River ...

'Floating Freedom School': Historic black pastor leaves legacy of ...

'Floating Freedom School': Historic black pastor leaves legacy of liberty, education in Missouri ... Mississippi River, outside the bounds of the ...

Exploring the History of Freedom Schools - Civil Rights Teaching

They were intended to counter what Charles Cobb refers to as the “sharecropper education” received by so many African Americans and poor whites.