Long before the advent of music in the virtual cloud, long before even vinyl records and wax cylinders, and sheet … More
Tag: African American History
What Intolerable Acts These Intolerable Acts!
After what came to be known as the Intolerable Acts by Patriots passed Parliament in 1774, Boston Harbor was shut, … More
BLACK COLONIAL COOPERS
The meat barrel that saved Hagar’s life* by her hiding behind it may have been made by yet another enslaved … More
JEMBO
If you have a romanticized idea about colonial taverns, leave those thoughts at the old inn’s front doorstep. You will … More
The Little Person of the Wayside Inn
Drawing from Adrian Covert’s “Taverns of the American Revolution, I learned that Benjamin Franklin was critical of inns and taverns. … More
Dick Brattle’s Deposition in the Case of Inhabitants of Milford v. Inhabitants of Bellingham, 16 Mass. 108, 15 Tyng 108 (1819), September 1819 at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (Massachusetts Archives)
Transcription by Susan G. Elliott, 26 August 2022 The transcription follows the photos of the manuscript. I Dick Brattle of … More
HAGER AND THE CONNECTICUT CHEESE FACTORY
Usually, we think only in terms of enslaved people, molasses, and rum when referring to the Atlantic trade routes of … More
Amariah Frost Deposition in the Case of “The Inhabitants of Milford, Massachusetts versus the Inhabitants of Bellingham, Massachusetts”
I Amariah Frost, formerly of Milford in the County of Worcester, but who, since the second Day of Nover Eighteen … More
ENSLAVED JERSEY GENDER BENDER
They were born enslaved on a mountain top but never stepped away from a fight. They were beaten so severely … More
HEROIC HAGAR OF HAVERHILL
“Black people have been here before us and survived. We can read their lives like signposts on the road and … More