Noddle’s Island’s waysStill spill upon East BostonA legacy not forgot If someone rents an enslaved person, is that person also … More
Tag: Enslaved African American
BLACK BETTY
Rising before dawn, She gathers wood, stokes the fire, Fills the kettle pot. I’ve had a hard life. It shouldn’t … More
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 … More
ROSE AND ANDREW DEWNER
More research on local slavery … Rose saw Andrew rise Not in height but in stature When she rose with … 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
THE ADVOCATE
“The Siege of Rhode Island.” Dick Brattle, soldier Conceived NOT in liberty Along the Charles Dick Brattle, a formerly enslaved … 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
THE VIOLINIST WHO ESCAPED A RHODE ISLAND PLANTATION
Long before the advent of music in the virtual cloud, long before even vinyl records and wax cylinders, and sheet … More
THE BURDENS OF BESS CORBETT
What do you see outside your window? How far back in time can you travel? From my early to middle … More
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