Slavery's Reach : Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State

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Label

Slavery's Reach : Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State

Title remainder

Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State

Statement of responsibility

Christopher Lehman

Creator

• Lehman, Christopher P

Contributor

• hoopla digital

Author

• Lehman, Christopher P

Subject

• Investments -- Moral and ethical aspects -- Minnesota
• Minnesota -- Economic conditions -- 19th century
• Slaveholders -- Minnesota -- Economic conditions
• Slaveholders -- Minnesota -- History -- 19th century
• Businesspeople -- Minnesota -- History -- 19th century
• Slavery -- Economic aspects -- Minnesota
• Slavery -- Minnesota -- History -- 19th century
• Slaves -- Minnesota -- History
• Slaveholders -- Southern States -- History -- 19th century
• Electronic books

Language

eng

Summary

From the 1840s through the end of the Civil War, leading Minnesotans invited slaveholders and their wealth into the free territory and free state of Minnesota, enriching the area's communities and residents. Dozens of southern slaveholders and people raised in slaveholding families purchased land and backed Minnesota businesses. Slaveholders' wealth was invested in some of the state's most significant institutions and provided a financial foundation for several towns and counties. And the money generated by Minnesota investments flowed both ways, supporting some of the South's largest plantations. 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

Cataloging source

Midwest

Dewey number

306.3/6209776

Index

no index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Target audience

adult