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African-American history remains in this area. The German settlement of Hermann on the opposite bank of the Missouri River ardently opposed slavery and as such the Missouri River made for not just a geographical divide, but also an ideological one. As a result of this position, first adopted in the 1840s, Hermann became a center for the mustering of black troops into the militia for the Civil War. Hermann was well known as a place of safe refuge for fugitive slaves from the surrounding area, and often those fugitives settled at Little Africa surrounding the Loutre River.
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Indians who had stolen horses from settlers. Captain
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