African American History at Historic Fort Snelling: Analying Artifacts from the Officers' Quarters

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2025 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

During the mid-19th century Fort Snelling, located in what is now known as Minnesota, housed African American individuals enslaved by officers serving in the American military. Today, the site functions as a popular historic destination. Although enslaved people were crucial to the site’s history, as well as Minnesotan and Midwestern history in general, their stories have frequently been excluded from the narrative presented at the site. In this paper, I highlight a group of artifacts that could be used to alleviate this representational discrepancy.

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