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A Romantic Union? Thoughts on Plantation Weddings from a Photographer/Historian

Plantations are not "charming" or "tranquil" wedding venues. They were gruesome labor camps profiting off of enslaved labor.
by John R. Legg via National Council on Public History on February 24, 2020
The signing of the Treaty of Traverse des Sioux depicted by painter Francis David Millet in 1885.

Dakota Uprooted: Capitalism, Resilience, and the U.S.-Dakota War

White American empire transformed Minnesota into an agricultural and extraction-based economy that uprooted Dakota from their traditional homelands.
by John R. Legg via The Activist History Review on June 10, 2019
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