On May 5, 1863 the Northerner, a steamboat carrying 70 formerly enslaved African Americans from Missouri, docked at Fort Snelling. Later that month the Davenport, a second steamboat carrying 200 […]
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Greg McMoore is a lifelong South Minneapolis resident and current board member of Hennepin History Museum. He recently completed an Arthur C. McWatt Fellowship to further explore the story of […]
In May of 1863, following the issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation by President Abraham Lincoln, hundreds of African Americans fled slavery on two steamboats provided by the military at Fort […]