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Feb
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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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Oct
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 […]