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  • A 1948 article in a Cape Cod newspaper seeks to dispel the myth that slavery was a southern problem.
  • 1777 court account
    Account of a case heard before Barnstable MA county court in 1777. The subject of the dispute: slaves… or is it “staves”?
  • Sale of Sarah, Harwich March 1760
    On March 11, 1760, two Cape Cod brothers sell the enslaved woman they’ve inherited from their father. But there’s a caveat: the buyer will be reimbursed if it turns out she’s damaged goods.
  • Norfolk Jubilee Singers
    A “Genuine Slave Band” in Provincetown
  • The story of a Harwich man on a slaving voyage, found in the Brooks Academy archives and
    published February 14, 2019 in the Cape Cod Chronicle
  • Sears house family
  • “Samuel Sewall’s The Selling of Joseph was the first anti-slavery tract published in New England. In the pamphlet, Sewall condemns African slavery and the slave trade in North America and refutes many of the typical justifications using Biblical and practical arguments. The MHS holds the only surviving copy of this important work.” -MHS
  • Brewster family standing in front of the Sears house.
    Here and gone
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Who we are

Atlantic Black Box is a public history project that empowers communities throughout New England to take up the critical work of researching and reckoning with our region’s complicity in the slave trade and our extensive involvement in the global economy of enslavement. This grassroots historical recovery movement is powered by citizen historians and guided by a broad coalition of scholars, community leaders, educators, archivists, museum professionals, antiracism activists, and artists.

Why history?

We believe in building community better through enlightened conversation. Our mission is to initiate and sustain open, engaging, and inclusive dialog at the local and regional level about who we were, who we are, and who we hope to be going forward, informed by an evidence-based approach to understanding our history and the many ways in which it connects to our present.

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