{"id":4279,"date":"2023-04-22T13:19:26","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T17:19:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/?p=4279"},"modified":"2023-04-22T13:19:26","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T17:19:26","slug":"meachum-john-berry-and-mary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/meachum-john-berry-and-mary\/","title":{"rendered":"Meachum, John Berry and Mary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>John Berry <\/strong>(1789-1854) and<strong> Mary Meachum<\/strong> (1801-1869) were free African Americans and Underground Railroad activists in St. Louis. John Berry was an African American minister in the city, while Mary <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/1855-st-louis-stampede\/\">continued to aid freedom seekers<\/a> and promote African American education after her husband&#8217;s death.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ESSAYS:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/religion-and-the-underground-railroad-laroche\/\">LaRoche<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/thematic-essays\/women-on-the-underground-railroad-larson\/\">Larson<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>ROLE:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/category\/abolitionist\/\">Abolitionist<\/a> \/\/ <a href=\"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/category\/ugrr-operative\/\">UGRR Operative<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Berry (1789-1854) and Mary Meachum (1801-1869) were free African Americans and Underground Railroad activists in St. Louis. John Berry was an African American minister in the city, while Mary continued to aid freedom seekers and promote African American education after her husband&#8217;s death. ESSAYS: LaRoche \/\/ Larson ROLE: Abolitionist \/\/ UGRR Operative<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":130,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[23509,23512],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abolitionist","category-ugrr-operative"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/130"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4279"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4280,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4279\/revisions\/4280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/housedivided.dickinson.edu\/sites\/ugrr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}