Slavery & Abolition: From the Desk of William Greenleaf Eliot Although William Greenleaf Eliot was a moderate abolitionist, he frequently practiced anti-slavery activism in St. Louis. His primary form of...
“Rebel City in a Rebel State”: From the Desk of William Greenleaf Eliot In the fall of 1861, the escalating Civil War had thrown Missouri into turmoil. As a border state that remained...