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Aquinnah Wampanoag author and Mashpee resident Linda J. Coombs spoke at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation on Saturday, March 16, about the history of colonization in New England from King Philip’s
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...
New England slavery lectures offered by Moffatt-Ladd House Portsmouth Herald PORTSMOUTH — The Moffatt-Ladd House and Garden, with support from the Vivian Treat Education Fund, announced Dr. Jared Ross Hardesty, associate professor of history at Western Washington University, will present two Zoom video conference lectures and discussions on the history of slavery in New England. Hardesty is the author of "Black Lives, Native Lands, White Worlds: A History of Slavery in New England" (University of Massachusetts Press, 2019). Hardesty explores the lives of enslaved men and women; how Ne...