Posts Tagged ‘Enslaved People’
Crossing Paths in Cambridge: Harriet Jacobs, Imogen Willis Eddy, and the Harvard College Observatory
By Paula Tarnapol Whitacre Harriet Jacobs, author of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, lived in Cambridge in the 1870s. As historians have documented (including during a recent History Café presentation), the boarding houses she ran provided a home for Harvard students and faculty, as well as a sense of community for her…
Read MoreBlack History in Cambridge: Online Resources Hub
Above Image: Saundra Graham speaks into a megaphone during the occupation of 319th Harvard Commencement June 11, 1970 (Courtesy Cambridge Historical Commission) Delve into these online resources that explore Black history in Cambridge. More programs and events about Cambridge’s Black history are being planned. To be notified, sign up for our monthly enewsletter. Articles Self-Guided…
Read MoreSelf-Guided Tour: Stories from the Early African American Community of Old Cambridge
By Jules Long, Longfellow House – Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site, 2018 | Edited by Eshe Sherley, History Cambridge, 2021 Slavery in Pre-Revolutionary Cambridge The oldest existing mention of slavery in Massachusetts was recorded in 1638, when African prisoners arrived in the colony on the slave ship Desire, built in Marblehead the previous year. In…
Read MoreEarly Black Cambridge Resource Hub
Are you interested in learning more about the history of race, slavery, and African American life in the Cambridge area? This guide highlights many of the resources available that touch on these topics, including primary, secondary, and public-facing sources (such as self-guided tours and websites). While this hub is focused on material related to the 1700s, it also offers relevant material from later periods in Cambridge history.
Read MoreTory Row Anti-Racism Coalition (TRAC) meeting + “The Sugar Planters of Brattle Street” with Caitlin DeAngelis Hopkins
Wednesday, April 7, 20216:30-7:30 PM Via Zoom (Register below for Zoom link) The Sugar Planters of Brattle Street Join the Cambridge Historical Society and your fellow Brattle Street neighbors for our first Tory Row Anti-Racism Coalition (TRAC) meeting and presentation. We will be joined by historian Caitlin DeAngelis Hopkins who will talk about the sugar-planting,…
Read MoreBrief History of the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House and Enslaved People
In July 2019, the Cambridge Historical Society formed a task force to examine the Society’s institutional history and make recommendations about how to confront the organization’s white privilege going forward. One of the first steps was to research the history of the Hooper-Lee-Nichols House (HLN) (currently the Society’s headquarters) and its owners. Were the owners…
Read MoreEast Cambridge Anti-Slavery Society, 1837-1840
Administrative Information Historical Sketch Sources Related Collections Scope and Content Note Library of Congress Subject Headings Series Description and Folder Listing ½ file box .13 linear feet Processor: Michael O’Connor Date: May 21, 2009 Acquisition: The records of the East Cambridge Anti-Slavery Society were donated by Alfred C. Potter to the Cambridge Historical Society on…
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