Tag: Hannibal history
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Who’s Solomon Dixon?
“In November 1859, he [Solomon] begged me to buy him and save him from being separated from his wife and boy. The privilege of finding a purchaser to his own liking had been given to him, and he said he had chosen me. We soon came to an understanding and I gave him a check.”
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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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