Christopher P. Lehman is a professor in the Department of Social Sciences at St. Cloud State University. He is the 2023 winner of the Minnesota Humanities Center’s Ruth Riester Award and the 2020 winner of the Minnesota Book Award in the Minnesota Nonfiction category for his book Slavery’s Reach: Southern Slaveholders in the North Star State. He has been a visiting fellow at Harvard University’s Hutchins Center for African and African American Research. His latest book is It Took Courage: Eliza Winston’s Quest for Freedom.