What Happened Here? | John Peters & Phillis Wheatley Peters

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Next up in our What Happened Here speaker series: A free Black couple move to a town north of Boston and are run out by its residents

In the years when slavery was ending in Massachusetts, the Peterses, a free Black couple, moved to an interior town north of Boston. Concerted opposition from many neighbors made it impossible for them to stay. What do the extensive court papers in this case tell us about town politics, race-based hierarchies, access to the law and citizenship, and the final four years of the African-born poet Phillis Wheatley Peters’s life?

<h3>About the speaker</h3>Cornelia H. Dayton is a professor of History at the University of Connecticut. Her research and teaching interests include law and society; women, gender, and sexuality; Black lives in the northeast and Atlantic world; marital elopement notices; the poor relief practice of warning newcomers; Revolutionary-era Boston; and New Englanders’ responses to mental health challenges prior to the 1840s. ________________________________________________________________________________________<a href="https://atlanticblackbox.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Atlantic Black Box</a> is a grassroots historical recovery project that empowers communities throughout New England to research, reveal, and begin reckoning with the region’s complicity in the slave trade and the global economy of enslavement.What Happened Here is a new speaker series from Atlantic Black Box featuring citizen historians and scholars doing groundbreaking research to reveal the suppressed history of New England.

What Happened Here? | John Peters & Phillis Wheatley Peters

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