Floating Freedom Schools (1 ene 1847 año – 1 ene 1854 año)

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in response to the 1847 state law that prohibited the teaching of Black students in Missouri, John and Mary Meachum (who had themselves escaped slavery) started a school on a riverboat. Known as a "floating freedom school," the school housed a library and operated on the Mississippi River waters which was out of the jurisdiction of the prohibitive Missouri laws.

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