Series about Slavery brought to you by Harvard University and the Hutchins Center for African and African American Research Event link
May 14: Dr. Edda Fields-Black, author of Combee: Harriet Tubman, the Combahee River Raid, and Black Freedom during the Civil War
June 11: Gloria Whiting, author of Belonging: An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in New England
HistoricBoston.org events
- Date: Jun 12 • 7:00 pm
- TOPIC: Suing Slavery: Essex County Freedom Suits, 1765-1783. 21 enslaved men and women sued for their freedom and won. Their victory paved the way for greater freedoms for all in Massachusetts
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Tuesday, April 29__ The Revolution before the Revolution: Boston, 1689.
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By the Partnership of Historic Boston
Event lasts 1 hour 30 minutes
Synopsis:
Popular uprisings, no tax without representation, a royal governor imprisoned – long before 1776, Massachusetts resisted royal rule.
We think of the American revolutionary moment as taking place in 1776, with the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Or perhaps it was the spring and summer of 1775, when the first shots were fired and militias from across New England gathered on Cambridge Common and formed what, under George Washington, became the Continental Army.
But American revolutionary ideals and practices long predate that time, by nearly a century. Resistance, defiance, collection action, a refusal to pay tax without being represented, a marked sense of independence from Britain – all these were present in the Puritan-Whig Revolution (also known as the Glorious Revolution) of 1689.
In 1686 the English crown dissolved local government in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and put a royal favorite, Edmund Andros, in charge of a consolidated Dominion of New England. Reluctant to express disloyalty to the king, Bostonians endured ever-increasing taxes and insults from the new unelected regime.
But behind closed doors, colonists engaged in electrifying debates about whether good subjects – and good Christians – should patiently submit…or whether rulers who violated natural law and the people’s welfare forfeited their right to rule.
