Jeanette Forchet

Jeanette Forchet, or Fourchet was one of few free African-Americans in what would become St. Louis, Missouri in the 18th-century. A 1796 census only listed forty-one free blacks living in St. Louis other than Forchet. Forchet was born around 1736, most likely in Illinois country. She ended up as a slave at a French outpost in Cahokia, Illinois. In 1763, the Catholic priest there felt his output falling into Protestant hands and freed all of his slaves. With nowhere to go, many of the slaves wandered around the area and eventually settled in newly founded St. Louis. Forchet was one of these fre

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