Award-Winning Author and St. Cloud State Educator is Reshaping Minnesota’s Relationship to Slavery

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Award-Winning Author and St. Cloud State Educator is Reshaping Minnesota’s Relationship to Slavery

Article by Eli Holm. Photo by Eli Holm. When Minnesota declared statehood in 1858, its constitution forbade the practice of slavery, enshrining it as a free state in the Antebellum period, but that doesn’t mean that slavery did not affect Minnesota. Dr. Christopher Lehman, Author, Historian, and Professor of Ethnic Studies at St. Cloud State, is at the forefront of demonstrating these effects. His education, research, and bibliography aim to res…