Augsburg College Professor of History Bill Green spoke with MinnPost about his latest聽book, “Degrees of Freedom: The Origins of Civil Rights in Minnesota, 1865-1912.”
Green told reporter Amy Goetzman that his book聽chronicles conditions for African-Americans in Minnesota in the half-century following the Civil War and聽picks up where his聽previous book, 鈥淎 Peculiar Imbalance: The Fall and Rise of Racial Equality in Minnesota, 1837-1869,鈥澛爈eft off.
“The history [of Minnesota] is amazing, particularly when you look at who was here before statehood and how they interacted with each other,” Green said. “I found that we were lacking a good accounting of the black people who were part of that history. Most of them didn鈥檛 leave a written record, which looks like they had nothing to say, but of course they did. They were part of this experience.鈥�
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