COLUMBIA — Kenneth Winn compared the find to something out of an Indiana Jones movie. For more than 150 years, the documents, folded into thirds and sealed with a red ribbon, were slowly covered in the dust of basement coal fires.
Court archives reveal Missouri slaves' fights for freedom
Scholar will discuss the St. Louis freedom suits at MU on Tuesday
Monday, April 25, 2011 | 5:44 p.m. CDT;
updated 4:29 p.m. CDT, Tuesday, April 26, 2011
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