June 18, 2013, Tuesday - Local History Round Table: How the U.S. Army Brought Slavery to Minnesota at the Central Library

Time: 7:00pm–8:00pm

Location: Central Library, Doty Board Room, 300 Nicollet Mall

Local History Round Table: How the U.S. Army Brought Slavery to Minnesota - Joseph Godfrey: Northern Slave, Black Dakota

Register Online or call 612-543-8000.

“Northern Slave, Black Dakota“ author, historian and retired trial lawyer Walt Bachman will tell how the U.S. Army's policies and practices brought slavery to Minnesota and shaped Godfrey's extraordinary life story. Godfrey grew up in bondage serving Minnesota's fur-trade elite, and, as a fugitive from Minnesota slavery, was conscripted to join warriors in the U.S. Dakota War of 1862.

Presented in collaboration with Pond Dakota Heritage Society.