Slaveholders and Real Estate in Minnesota

Name: Slaveholders and Real Estate in Minnesota
Start: 2020-09-15T18:00:00-05:00
End: 2020-09-15T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Zoom Webinar

Tue, Sep 15

Zoom Webinar

Minnesota's real estate industry was partially founded on slave capital. Learn about how Minnesotans recruited southern slaveholders to buy land, and see how Minnesota developed communities with the money from those sales.

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Slaveholders and Real Estate in Minnesota

Time & Location

Sep 15, 2020, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Zoom Webinar

About the Event

*This class will be presented as a webinar*

"SLAVEHOLDERS AND REAL ESTATE IN MINNESOTA" -- Dr. Christopher P. Lehman, St. Cloud State University

Minnesota is not immune from the impacts of slavery in America. Despite its northern location, it was a participant in the slave economy of the United States from its time as a territory in the 1840s and early 50s through investments by southern slaveholders in real estate, business and institutions across the state.

“Slaveholders and Real Estate in Minnesota,” an online course to be held on Tuesday, September 15, 2020, will explore how Minnesota’s development as a territory and early years as a state were influenced by the wealth derived from slave labor.

Taught by Christopher P. Lehman, Professor of Ethnic, Gender and Women’s Studies at St. Cloud State University, this class will examine the role of slaveholders and their wealth on Minnesota. The class will…