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During the Civil War, Archer Alexander would overhear Confederates planning on destroying a local railroad bridge, and heroically risk his life to inform the Union troops. When discovered, and the Slave Patrol was after him, he would lead sixteen other freedom seekers on the Underground Railroad. Not all of them would make it. Hear this true story, and gain a better understanding of what life in Missouri for those who were enslaved, was truly like. While Archer Alexander spent most of his life in Missouri, buried in St. Louis, where he is listed on the National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom. He is the icon of Emancipation as he is the enslaved man seen rising on the National Memorial for Abraham Lincoln in Washington, D.C.
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