Explore the experiences of African Americans in Missouri and Illinois from 1699-1865. Learn about where they lived, what they did and where they are buried. Meet Priscilla Baltimore, the remarkable woman who founded a freedom village, and Caroline Quarlls, an enslaved woman in St. Louis who found her way to freedom in Canada. Be swayed by the firebrand abolitionism of the Congregationalists. See what it was like to hunker in the dark basement of the Hanson House. Marvel at the faded 'haint' blue paint on a slave dwelling at Prairie Park Plantation. Wind your way through the lonely Pitman Cemetery, where the enslaved slumber unmarked and abandoned. Author Julie Nicolai details this history and more.