Atlantic Black Box Presents
New England Burning: Arson as Resistance to Slavery in Colonial New England 1650-1775 with Kerima Lewis Wednesday, May 1, 2024 6:00-7:00 online In New England, enslaved men and women of African heritage worked out their lifetime servitude as domestic servants, maritime workers, skilled laborers, and farmhands. Faced with this unending forced labor, which was accompanied by brutal beatings and heavy legal restrictions, some struck back with force. Among the repertoire of resistance methods enslaved men and women devised to counter this unending oppression, acts of arson figured prominently from the early colonial period through the outbreak of the American Revolution. |
Bridgewater's
Annual Juneteenth Saturday, 6/22/24 -- 1:00-6:00 p.m. At Bridgewater State University Check Our Juneteenth Page Updates to come |