Beginning Date
Sunday, February 1, 1863
Starting Point
Freedom Seekers Mentioned By Name
Archer Alexander
Mid Points
End Point
An enslaved man named Archer Alexander, a spy for Union military forces, fled slavery in St. Charles county, Missouri, escaping to St. Louis where he found protection from the U.S. army. Alexander later became immortalized as the model for the liberated ex-slave featured with Abraham Lincoln in the Emancipation Memorial in Washington, DC, sculpted by Thomas Ball and dedicated in 1876 by Frederick Douglass.
Escape Attributes
Single Slaveholder
Escape Numbers
1
Outcome
Freedom
Notes on Sources
Rechtenwald, The Life of Archer Alexander, 56