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Although the passing of the Northwest Ordinance in 1787 banned African American slavery in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, making the new territory officially "free," slavery in fact persisted in the region through the end of the Civil War.
Slaves accompanied presidential appointees serving as soldiers or federal officials in the Upper Mississippi, worked in federally supported mines, and openly accompanied southern travelers. Entrepreneurs from the East Coast started pro-slavery riverfront communities in Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, and Minnesota to woo vacationing slaveholders.
Midwestern slaves joined their southern counterparts in suffering family separations, beatings, auctions, and other indignities that accompanied status as chattel. This revealing work explores all facets of the "peculiar institution" in this peculiar location and its impact on the social and political development of the United States.
Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
CHAPTER
Slavery in the Northwest Territory
CHAPTER
The Politics of Indentured Servitude: Slavery in Illinois
CHAPTER THREE
Miners and Soldiers: Slavery in Wisconsin
CHAPTER FOUR
Migrating Southerners: Slavery in Iowa
CHAPTER FIVE
Hoteliers and Local Slaveholders: Slavery in Minnesota
CHAPTER
Dred Scott and the Boom in Upper Mississippi Slavery
CHAPTER SEVEN
Upper Mississippi Slavery in the Civil War Years
Conclusion
Chapter Notes
Bibliography
Index
