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"Slavery's Reach is a real eye-opener. WHo knew that in the years before the Civil War, southerners invested funds derived from slave labor in real estate, banks, insurance companies, and other business enterprises in Minnesota, that they served as federal officials in this free territory, and that some brought their slaves ith them (among them Dred Scott)? The book is a model of how local research can tield results of broad significance, among them that slavery was a truly national institution, not just a feature of the Old South." -Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor Emeritus of History, Columbia University
