Floating Freedom School

Floating Freedom School
Riverboats along the Mississippi River at St. Louis, Missouri
Address
Mississippi River, off the shore of St Louis, Missouri
Coordinates	38°37′17″N 90°10′43″W / 38.62139°N 90.17861°W / 38.62139; -90.17861[a]
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Established	1847
Closed	After 1860

The Floating Freedom School was an educational facility for free and enslaved African Americans on a steamboat on the Mississippi River. It was established in 1847 by the Baptist minister John Berry Meachum. After Meachum's death in 1854, the Freedom School was taken over by Reverend John R. Anderson, a former student, and closed sometime after 1860.
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