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BY DORRIS KEEVEN-FRANKE

Award-winning author, speaker, public historian, professional genealogist and archivist.

I’ve been researching and writing local history, both black and white for nearly forty years.

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Outline Map of St. Charles County

The old French and Spanish families of the early days of settlement had given way to the new American families flooding westward. Many of these were Kentucky, Virginia and Maryland were slave owners.

SLAVE SALES

GRANVILLE ABBINGTON & THE 56TH U.S.C.T.

ABSALOM WHITE

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