WHAT’S IN A NAME ? When your name is Quâcoo, plenty. Quâcoo came to my attention in a will left…
NANNY “BAXTER” OF MEDFIELD
“Enslaved Girl” collage “To her private life Only a few were privy. A life lost and found.” Nanny’s days were…
Newport Green to Sabin Mann, 1788, Medfield, Massachusetts, Real Estate Bill of Sale, Transcription.
Companion piece to “Busy as a (Green) Nailer“ [GRANTOR: Newport Green; GRANTEE: Sabin Mann Esqr and Francis Hamant Yeoman, fifteen…
Benjamin Callander to Newport Green and Warwick Green, 1782, Medfield, Massachusetts Bill of Sale, Transcription
Companion to “Busy as a Green Nailer.” [GRANTOR: Benjamin Callender of Medfield, Massachusetts, silvesmith; GRANTEE: Newport & Warrick Green, nailers;…
BUSY AS A “GREEN” NAILER
[Portrait of Isaac Jefferson (1775-c.1850), Tinsmith, blacksmith and nailer, Enslaved artisan at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello (Unattributed)] Excerpt from “THE ROSEHEAD…
Enslaved and For Hire
Noddle’s Island’s waysStill spill upon East BostonA legacy not forgot If someone rents an enslaved person, is that person also…
BLACK BETTY
Rising before dawn, She gathers wood, stokes the fire, Fills the kettle pot. I’ve had a hard life. It shouldn’t…
BESS CORBETT, Gone But Not Forgotten
Revised 22 Sept. 2022 Bess Corbett enslaved Mother, Father, siblings too By the “good” doctor. You might never have heard…
THE ADVOCATE
“The Siege of Rhode Island.” Dick Brattle, soldier Conceived NOT in liberty Along the Charles Dick Brattle, a formerly enslaved…
ROSE AND ANDREW DEWNER
More research on local slavery … Rose saw Andrew rise Not in height but in stature When she rose with…