12/26/2025
On This day in 1862 the largest mass hanging in U.S history took place in Mankato , Minnesota. Following the Dakota War and the U.S failing to uphold the Treaties 38 + 2 Relatives who hung all at once from the same scaffolding where people gathered and watched. President Abraham Lincoln is the one who made the call , yeah the same President who freed the slaves. 👇🏽🔽
The most touching scene on the drop was their attempts to grasp each other’s hands, fettered as they were. They were very close together, as many succeeded. Three or four in a row were hand in hand, and all hands swaying up and down with the rise and fall of their voices…We were informed by those who understood the language that their singing and shouting was only to sustain each other; that there was nothing defiant in their last moments, and that no ‘death-song,’ strictly speaking, was shouted on the gallows. Each one shouted his own name, and called on the name of his friend, saying, in substance, ‘I’m here! I’m here!’” ❤️⚫️🟡⚪️🔴
