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SLAVE LEGACY HISTORY COALITION
A JOURNEY IN AMERICAN HISTORY
"A PLATFORM CONNECTING THE SPOKES ON THE WHEEL OF HISTORY OF ENSLAVED PEOPLE AND DESCENDANTS"
The Slave Legacy History Coalition is a consortium of individuals, organizations, and institutions engaged in the preservation of the history of enslaved people in the Cambridge, Boston communities and beyond. The Slave Legacy History Coalition was established in the fall of 2021 by the Lloyd Family descendants of Tony, Cuba, and Darby, whose enslaver Issac Royall Jr. endowed the first law professorships at Harvard University, which eventually became Harvard Law School. The Slave Legacy History Coalition was established to build a pathway forward for other families who are descendants of slaves and also the general public to help connect to the vast repositories of information on slave legacy history in the Boston and Cambridge communities and beyond. The mission of the Slave Legacy
History Coalition is to provide easier access to information and resources on the legacy of slavery before and after emancipation for the families of slave descendants and the general public. Copyright 2022 -2024 Lloyd Family Trust
The presentations represent the view of the speakers and not necessarily that of the Slave Legacy History Coalition.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2025 | 10:30-11:30 AM EST
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Seth Rockman
Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery
Zoom: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84763385655?pwd=cUU3dVlUa24vdHJHdTYxUHR1U2VCdz09
Meeting ID: 847 6338 5655 Passcode: 294088
In this talk, Rockman tells the biggest stories of early American history through the most mundane artifacts: shoes manufactured in Massachusetts for the use of enslaved people in Mississippi, for example, or woolen dresses stitched in Rhode Island for enslaved women in South Carolina to wear. In following these goods from the communities in which they were made to the communities in which they were used, Rockman rethinks the geography of slavery and freedom in the decades between American independence and the Civil War. He poses questions that continue to preoccupy us in the age of the iPhone and fair-trade coffee: what are the moral, ecological, and political relationships linking consumers and producers across long distances? What does it mean to be “complicit"?
Seth Rockman is an associate professor of history at Brown University. He is the author of Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore and coeditor of Slavery’s Capitalism: A New History of American Economic Development. Rockman serves on the faculty advisory board of Brown University’s Ruth J. Simmons Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice.
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2025 Presenters
April 9:Scarlett Hoey, Worcester, Art, and Telling the Whole History
May 14: Dr. Edda Fields-Black, author of Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
June 11: Gloria Whiting, author of Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in New England
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Enslavement in a Puritan Village
Partnerships of Historic Bostons
Wednesday, March 26
7-8:30pm, online
| It was lauded as the quintessential Puritan village in a Pulitzer Prize winning history. But what was the true story of Sudbury, Massachusetts - the second town established west of Boston in the first decade of English Puritan settlement? Local historian Jane Sciacca, author of a new book, delves into church records, wills, bills of sale, medical records, diaries and more to tell us of the intimate lives of both Sudbury’s enslaved people and people who were enslavers, such as the Rev. Loring, whose home is pictured here. | |
Rescheduled to Sunday, May 18, 2025 at 2:30pm! | |
Old South's (G)RACE Speaks Committee is teaming up with local playwright Debbie Wiess to present as a staged reading, A Revolutionary Encounter in London, her 70-minute one-act play about the little-known meeting in London summer 1773 of two of Boston's Colonial icons: enslaved African Poetess Phillis Wheatley and American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. | |
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Witness these two important figures in Old South's history converse in their spiritual home, 252 years after their famous encounter. There will also be a special musical performance by Castle of Our Skins and refreshments to enjoy. You don't want to miss it!
Click here to register. The event is free to attend; however donations to support the church's Racial Justice efforts will be gratefully accepted.
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Historic New England is Hiring a Stopping Stones
Program Director
Historic New England is seeking a dynamic leader to direct Stopping Stones, an established program that recently became part of Historic New England. Stopping Stones is a national place-based public art strategy that recruits local partners to honor the memories of enslaved individuals in the locations where they were held and bring their stories alive by installing micro monuments and supporting multivocal installation ceremonies that catalyze local movements for reparative justice, racial healing, and greater equity. Stopping Stones is part of Recovering New England’s Voices.
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If you missed our previous meeting, we are pleased to inform you that a recording is now available! | |
SLHC Affiliated Organizations and Individuals | |
A Special Thank You to our Donors!
The Slave Legacy History Coalition thanks everyone who has donated to the SLHC.
Thank you also to the individuals and organizations who lend their time and expertise toward our cause.
Your support is greatly appreciated and make what we do possible!
The SLHC is supported by History Cambridge, our fiscal sponsor. The Cambridge Historical Society is a 501C3 tax-exempt organization doing business as History Cambridge; tax identification number is 04-6032737.
*To give a gift by mail, please make out checks to “History Cambridge” 159 Brattle Street, Cambridge, MA with “SLHC” in the memo line.
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