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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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Atlantic Black Box

Atlantic Black Box

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The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed in this multi-author blog space belong solely to each individual author, and do not necessarily reflect those of Atlantic Black Box or its members.

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#AtlanticBlackBox Contributors

  • Anne Farrow
    • Changed by an Assignment
  • Atlantic Black Box
    • Event tonight: Atlantic Black Box, Reckoning with New England’s Complicity in the Slave Trade @ 7 pm
  • Bill Sullivan
    • Author Talk with Elizabeth Normen, Venture Smith, Tuesday, (1/26), 7-8pm on Zoom
  • Sara E. Lewis
    • Spencer Hall: He Died in the Guinea Trade
  • Christy Clark-Pujara
    • How the Myth of a Liberal North Erases a Long History of White Violence
  • dennisculliton
    • Witness Stones and Teaching Teachers Hard History
  • Edward L. Bell
    • Freeing Eral Lonnon: a Mashpee Indian Presumed a Fugitive Slave in Louisiana, and the Role of Native People in the History of Judicial Abolition in Massachusetts
  • fionahopper1
    • Confronting Place Ignorance in Education
  • Gordon Harris
    • The Caning of Senator Charles Sumner
  • Jared Ross Hardesty
    • Researching Slavery and Black Life in Early New England: An Introduction
  • Jen Carr
    • Exeter, NH and Evolving Revolutionary History
  • Penobscot Marine Museum
    • Sighting a Slave Ship: The Logbook of the ship CORINNE, commanded by John K. Stickney in 1853
  • Kathryn DiPhilippo, Executive Director, South Portland Historical Society
    • Captain Taylor and Captain Talbot made history in Portland, Maine
  • Greater Portland Landmarks
    • Munjoy Hill’s 19th Century African-American Community
  • Katie McCarthy
    • How to Bring the Witness Stones Project to Life
  • Lincoln Paine
    • Documents Illustrative of the History of the Slave Trade to America
  • Lauren McCormack, Marblehead Museum
    • Agnes, An Enslaved Woman’s Grave on Old Burial Hill, Marblehead, MA
  • Meadow Dibble
    • Event: Seth Goldstein Offers a Virtual Guided Tour of Portland’s Old Port
  • Rhonan Mokriski
    • A Deepening Lesson
  • robsanford
    • A Public Archaeology: The Archaeology of Malaga Island
  • susannahremillard4244
    • The Students Speak
  • Vana Carmona
    • Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman in Portland?!!

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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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