Margaret Bonga Fahlstrom
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Margaret Bonga Fahlstrom
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Margaret Bonga Fahlstrom was a mixed-race woman of African and Ojibwe descent who came from a fur trading family in the Great Lakes region. In 1823, she married Jacob Fahlstrom, the first Swedish settler in Minnesota, and lived with him on a small farm at Coldwater Spring near Fort Snelling. Margaret was one of the few free Black women living in the area around the time that enslaved women such as Harriet Robinson Scott were struggling to find a path to freedom. In 1838, the Fahlstroms became th
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19th-century Ojibwe-African American woman in Minnesota
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Bonga_Fahlstrom
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2023-09-27T04:25:10Z
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