ST. LOUIS — The back hardwood stairs of the historic Taille de Noyer, an antebellum home in Florissant, Missouri that started as a two-room log cabin for fur traders, tell many stories.
The stairs are worn and dipped in the middle, points out the foreword of a new book about slavery in north St. Louis County.
“Let us remember that some of the feet on those steps did not walk there by choice, that some of the hands on the handrail were being summoned by service,” writes Andrew Theising, the editor of “In the Walnut Grove: A Consideration of the People Enslaved in and Around Florissant, Missouri.”
