Tag: African Methodist Episcopal Church
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Up from Ralls County Slavery: Rev. Jesse Stepton Woods
By Gregg Andrews Born into slavery on June 24, 1859, in northeast Ralls County, Missouri, Jesse Stepton Woods and his mother, Nancy Woods, left the bottomlands between Marble Creek and Salt River, tributaries of the Mississippi, to celebrate a life of freedom in nearby Hannibal. They reunited with Nancy’s older children and her father, Nathan…
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