This kind of story pops up a lot in Pasadena. My favorite plant nursery was owned by a Japanese family beginning in 1923; when they were interned, Mexican neighbors ran it for two years. They handed it right back to the Takemuras when they returned to run it– for another 50 years. It's still there.
Happy Evacuation Day!
While Boston celebrates the retreat of the British in 1776, let's also remember the Black Bostonians who found their freedom by leaving Massachusetts with the British.
Pompey Fleet was a skilled printer enslaved by the Fleet family (printers/booksellers/auctioneers) in Boston
Caitlin G. DeAngelis
Emily J. Edwards
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"How bad slavery was" is worse. Much worse. Much worse than you think, much worse than you're taught, much worse than museums depict. Worse.
@elevennames.bsky.social , someone is handling their enslaving clergy with visible leadership.
I wanted to include this excerpt in my Phebe post, but I shortened it. Here, Mary Smith Cranch wrote to her sister Abigail Adams in Philadelphia in 1798 describing cruel treatment of a Black woman and her child, and Phebe's remarkable reaction. You should read it! www.masshist.org/publications...
Happy Evacuation Day! 250 years ago, the Siege of Boston was broken as General Washington and others held the high ground over both Boston and the waterways forcing the British (who were just about done being stuck in Boston without food/alcohol) out.
Learn more here:
www.nps.gov/bost/learn/h... 🗃️
Harvard Legacy of Slavery Initiative Releases Database Identifying 1,613 Enslaved PeopleHarvard Legacy of Slavery Initiative Releases Database Identifying 1,613 Enslaved People www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
I contributed to this.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
I debated writing this. It can feel tempting, upon encountering yet another instance of this administration’s racism, to let it be. How many ways can you say the same thing over and over again? And yet we have to write it down, if for nothing else, so those who come after us know we were against it.
Jocelyn
Jocelyn
Thomas Lecaque
Eleven Names Project
Bill R aka N1VUX
Eleven Names Project
Eleven Names Project
Clint Smith
Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery Initiative released a public database Tuesday identifying 1,613 people who were enslaved by Harvard leaders, faculty, and staff or who labored on Harvard’s campus between 1...
