Slavery

John Floersch Charged for Selling Liquor to Slaves

Filed Sept 10, 1851 Ira Norris, Clerk The State vs. John Floersch Dealing with Slaves Selling liquor on July 1, 1851 to a slave - without consent of their owner! One has to wonder if in a tragic irony this is ahead of any Independence Day celebration on the 4th. Witnesses James Serrat John Quermott John Heed… Luther State of Missouri County of Platte In the Circuit Court September Tenth 1851 Platte County to wit: The Grand Jury?? For the state of Missouri for the Body of the County of Platte, aforesaid, Upon this oath present…

THE JACKSON RESOLUTIONS

According to the Paxton Annals of Platte County, Missouri, Hall Wilkerson is known to have voted in favor of the Jackson Resolutions, a strongly worded pro-slavery statement by the Missouri state legislature in 1849 -See Annals of Platte County, Missouri, by William McClung Paxton, p. 142 Early in the year 1849 there began a series of discussions in the Missouri Legislature concerning the slavery question, or rather the power of Congress over slavery in the territories. On the 15th of January Hon. C. F. Jackson, senator from Howard, afterward Governor of the State, introduced into the…