Fort Snelling: Dred Scott, the 1st Minnesota Regiment, and the Citadel at Bdote
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The sacred origin place of the Dakota is called Bdote, located at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota Rivers. It is also where the United States built Fort Snelling, a limestone citadel so visually intimidating it was never once attacked. Yet behind those heavy stone walls, a quiet paradox took root: in a territory where federal law explicitly banned human bondage, army officers held enslaved men and women in forced servitude, sparking Dred and Harriet Scott's historic fight for freedom that reached the U.S. Supreme Court and accelerated the nation toward civil…
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