John Berry Meachum (1789-1854) was an American pastor, businessman, educator and founder of a church in St. Louis, the oldest black church in Missouri. Meachum also circumvented a Missouri state law banning education for black people by creating the Floating Freedom School on a steamboat on the Mississippi River.
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1789
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1854 (aged 64)
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