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…honors the enslaved adults and children who lived and worked on this land as well as those whose labor on Caribbean plantations helped finance the grand homes of white Tory…
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…one was large, mostly male, heavy on the PhD’s (with a few Nobel winners thrown in), and was housed in a pair of buildings called the Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory (HCL)….
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How did unpaid labor enable the Revolutionary leaders of Cambridge to foment rebellion and to carry out the political and military duties of the War? Although much is known about…
Read More…male, heavy on the PhD’s (with a few Nobel Prize winners thrown in), and housed in a pair of buildings called the Harvard Cyclotron Laboratory (HCL). Demolished in 2003, the…
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…girls and women and teach them and then get them good places….Instead of living in poverty and dependence they are all supporting themselves by honest labor, and their children will…
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…the Role History Cambridge seeks a graduate-level intern to research the labor (both paid and unpaid) performed by women and BIPOC Cantabrigians during the period of the American Revolution. Intern…
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…those whose labor on Caribbean plantations helped finance the grand homes of white Tory Row elites. The oldest existing mention of slavery in Massachusetts was recorded in 1638, when African…
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…is recognized as labor. . . we’re not going to have the corresponding social power that paid and recognized and respected work has.” Together they published The Houseworkers Handbook (1974)…
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…labor in Jamaica and enslaved people at their homes and estates in Cambridge. Joseph and Rebecca Lee, owners of the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House, were complicit in this economy. We know of…
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…year asking “Who Are Cambridge Women?” We began the program by exploring the nature of “women’s work”: what kinds of labor (both paid and unpaid) have traditionally been assigned to women?…
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