Northern Slave, Black Dakota: The Life and Times of Joseph Godfrey - Paperback
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Northern Slave, Black Dakota: The Life and Times of Joseph Godfrey
Born into slavery in free territory, Joseph Godfrey died widely reviled for his controversial role in the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862. Separated from his mother at age five when his enslaver sold her, Godfrey sought refuge in his teens among the Dakota people he had befriended as a child. Godfrey married a Dakota woman and was living with his family on the Lower Sioux Reservation in 1862, when the...
Walt Bachman is a historian and retired lawyer. He is the author of The Last White House Slaves: The Story of Jane, President Zachary Taylor's Enslaved Concubine; Officer, Gentleman, Slavemaster: Slavery and Racism at West Point and Fort Leavenworth; and Yankee Slaveholders in the Charleston Harbor: The Untold Story of Northern U.S. Army Officers Who Kept Slaves at Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie.
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