The Frenchtown Heritage Museum celebrates

Black History Month featuring the

Dred Scott Exhibit

American history has always been about freedom: who has it, who doesn't, how much there should be and how to get it. From its founding in 1764, St. Louis has been home to African Anericans. Until 1865, most were enslaved. This exhibition tells the story of the St. Louis enslaved blacks and their quests for freedom. The roads they took were varied, but the goal of the journey remainded the same: to share America's promise of liberty and justice for all. These images of documetns, photographs and objets from the collecion of the Missouri Historical Society provide ways to tracing the pursuit of freedom in nineteenth-century St. Louis.