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Historical May 1984 report or notice. Original dates, prices and contacts describe the source period; current availability has not been established.
“St. Louis has revolutionary traditions, hardly recognized today.
We are built on a variety of cultures that made this community a dynamic place to live in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries,” said the Rev. Robert W. Tabscott, minister of Des Peres Presbyterian Church and a historian who will present original research at the Missouri Historical Society on Sat., May 19.
He will be one of three featured speakers in the half-day conference, “Perspectives II: The Anti-Slavery Cause,” to be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Jefferson Memorial Building in Forest Park.
There is no charge for the conference, but registration, with a deadline of May 7, is limited to 150 persons. Tabscott called the nationally known abolitionist martyr Elijah P. Lovejoy, “the catalyst who interacted with a cadre of men and women in St. Louis whose actions provided the grist for the Civil War.
One of these was the Rev. John Barry Meachum, who, in 1840, operated the Freedom School on a steamboat in the middle of the Mississippi River. Black children, both free and slave, were ferried out to the middle of the river to be educated.
At that time Missouri ordinances forbade teaching blacks.” Founder and president of the Elijah P. Lovejoy Society, the Rev. Tabscott has conducted extensive original research on local people who were involved with the pre-war Vigil, 1832 to 1865.
He also teaches human relations at Webster University.
As the national anti-slavery movement gained momentum and people lined up on opposite sides, advocates and enemies of reform faced each other for battle. Louis S. Gerteis, Ph.D., associate professor of history at the University of Missouri-St. Louis, will present this national context for events in St. Louis as he explores the implications of the controversy in a border state. Prof. Gerteis has published widely on the subject of slavery, emancipation and reform.
He is the author of From ConBe Topic of Conference traband to Freedman: Federal Policy Toward Southern Blacks, 1860-1865.
The struggle brought many women out of the parlor into the battle. Eileen M. Eagan, Ph.D., will present the perspective of women who were active in abolitionism and other movements for social change in the antebellum period. Dr. Eagan, assistant professor of history at Illinois State University, has undertaken research and published papers on women’s history and on the peace movement.
After their presentations, the speakers will conduct workshops on their perspectives on the topic. Conference participants will choose which perspective they wish to explore in more detail.
A panel made up of local historians discussing their current research will conclude the session. Burton C. Bernard will give historical background on “Elijah P. Lovejoy and Family, March 1776-August 1891”; Patricia L. Adams of the Western Historical Manuscripts Collection, University of Missouri-St. Louis, will discuss “Woman Suffrage in St. Louis, 1850-1910”; Ronald P. Bolte, from the Carondelet Historical Society, will speak about “Carondelet and the Gunboats”; and Bernard M. Brown will tell about “A Man Time Has Forgotten: General William S. Harney.” On Saturday, June 16, the Society will present the third and final workshop on St. Louis historical themes: “The Urban Landscape.” The Perspectives series is co-sponsored by the Missouri Historical Society, by the history departments of the University of Missouri-St. Louis and St. Louis University, and by the Carondelet Historical Society.
This project is supported by a grant to the Missouri Historical Society from the Missouri Committee for the Humanities, Inc., the state-based arm of the National Endowment for the Humanities.
To register for the conference or for more information about the series, contact the conference coordinator at 361-9265.
Originally published in The Paper, May 1984.
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Archival transcription note: Reported 1840 Freedom School steamboat date and other historical claims are attributed to the source conference announcement and have not been independently verified.
Original source: SD_Times1984_05.pdf, printed page(s) 2; PDF page(s) 2.
