Hosted by the Partnership of Historic Bostons Thursday, November 30, 7-8:30pm Register here Christianity and slavery were linked in colonial New England. Richard Boles explores the experiences of Black and Native people If any "Negro-servants" should "Run away from their Masters," Cotton Mather wrote in 1693,"we will afford them no Shelter.... We will do what in us lies, … Continue reading Partnership of Historic Bostons Event | Enslaved Christians: Black Church Members in the Era of Cotton Mather on 11/30/23
Event: Dr. Kate McMahon on “Land and Liberty: The Historic African American Community of Peterborough, Maine”
Hosted by Maine Conservation Voters Friday, January 15, 12:00 -1:00 p.m. Register here Rural African American communities are an important, yet understudied, part of Maine’s history and path to statehood. Peterborough, in the town of Warren, was once one of the largest African American communities in Maine. Dr. Kate McMahon of the Smithsonian National Museum … Continue reading Event: Dr. Kate McMahon on “Land and Liberty: The Historic African American Community of Peterborough, Maine”
Event: Indigenous People’s Day Film Screening Today
Presented by the Upstander Project and Boston Athenaeum in honor of Indigenous People's Day Emmy Award winning Dawnland and Dear Georgina Online Film Screening + Live Filmmaker Q & A October 12, 2020 | 8:00 - 10:00 p.m. | Free eventRegister here For decades, child welfare authorities have been removing Native American children from their … Continue reading Event: Indigenous People’s Day Film Screening Today
Event: Indigenous History Conference
Bridgewater State University, Plymouth 400, & the Wampanoag Advisory Council present: Here it Began: 2020 Hindsight or Foresight A Plymouth 400 Signature Event Nine Virtual Sessions, free of chargeOct. 3 - Nov. 22, 2020Register here Here It Began: 2020 Hindsight or Foresight, a signature Plymouth 400 event, is an Indigenous History Conference to inspire educators … Continue reading Event: Indigenous History Conference
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
A summary essay about the 1839 report on the deliverance of Massachusetts citizens liable to be sold as slaves in slave states and a 1936 reference book on historical Massachusetts judicial cases involving people of color By Edward L. Bell scholarly researcher and writer in New England history Abstract: The 1839 Massachusetts legislative Report on … Continue reading 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