The first enslaved African arrived in New Hampshire in 1645
Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part series on the way recent events are helping Americans come to terms with our checkered past. Twenty-something years ago, I was chatting with a college professor at Prescott Park when the topic turned to American slavery. I noted, having recently interviewed historian Valerie Cunningham, that the first enslaved African in New Hampshire had arrived at this very spot in 1645. Slavery is "a Southern thing" “That can’t be true,” my scholarly companion replied, or something to that effect. He seemed offended by the very idea. “There wa...
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