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Slavery's Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State
Social Science > Slavery
- Minnesota Historical Society Press
- Paperback
- 9781681341354
- 8.9 X 6 X 0.7 inches
- 0.8 pounds
- Social Science > Slavery
- (Single Author) Asian American
- English
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Book Description
Minnesotans eagerly catered to this source of investment. Politicians and officeholders like Henry Sibley, Henry Rice, and Sylvanus Lowry worked for a slaveholder; the latter two recruited wealthy southern slaveholders to invest in property. Six hundred residents of the new state of Minnesota petitioned the legislature to make slavery legal for vacationing southerners who brought with them enslaved men and women as body servants, for their comfort and convenience while they escaped the summer heat of the South.
Through careful research in obscure records, censuses, newspapers, and archival collections, Christopher Lehman has brought to light this hidden history of northern complicity in building slaveholder wealth.
Author Bio
Christopher P. Lehman is a professor of ethnic studies at St. Cloud State University and the author of Slavery in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1787–1865: A History of Human Bondage in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin.
Chair Professor Lehman teaches at Department of Ethnic, Gender, and Women's Studies of St Cloud State University. Professor Lehman received his PhD from University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
Source: Minnesota Historical Society
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