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Sam Nightingale was originally born in Guinea and taken to South Carolina to work as a slave. Sam worked on plantations in Georgia, Florida, Missouri, and Louisiana but died free in Missouri. He is recorded to be a "Conjure" man who was a good storyteller, herbalist, and would hold healing ceremonies by using African traditions to help people who were sick, had problems, and aid the conditions they were going through in life. Many people came from all around the state of Missouri for Sams help. Sam was considered the community healer and leader who honored his ancestors and was proud to be one of the last African born men in his state. Although, the last slave ship arrived in 1859 and Sam arrived around the early 1800s.
Sam was born in the late 1700s and died in the late 1800s the stories of Sam and his magick live on and still told in Boonville today in addition to recorded in slave historical narratives.
