Quindaro Riverport

For more than forty years, Quindaro has called to the author-a historic Black community in Kansas with which he has no ancestral connection, yet one that has become deeply connected to his spiritual journey. Founded in 1856 by free Black settlers and their allies, Quindaro became a bold symbol of freedom, courage, education, and Black hope in nineteenth-century America. Its people welcomed freedom seekers, built homes and institutions, and stood against the forces of slavery and injustice. Blending historical research, personal memoir, oral tradition, and spiritual reflection, this book explores not only what happened at Quindaro, but what its story means today. It is an act of remembrance dedicated to the people whose lives, sacrifices, faith, and dreams helped build a community that history nearly forgot. This is the story of a place-and of the unexpected calling to remember it.