Do you watch SLOW HORSES
on AppleTV? Wait until you learn how Brits pronounce Harwich!
I've heard of this project. What a fantastic statue. The piece is continued inside on the sanctuary's ceiling. Stunning stuff. www.memorial.kings-chapel.org
@elevennames.bsky.social , someone is handling their enslaving clergy with visible leadership.
Dart, have you read Cornelia Dayton's 2021 work, "Lost Years Recovered: John Peters and Phillis Wheatley Peters in Middleton"? It's available on JSTOR via the BPL, but I can also send you a copy.
direct.mit.edu/tneq/article...
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.
"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.
If you are a cheese enjoyer, try as much local fromage quebecoise as your appetite will allow. Fantastic stuff.
Restauraeur = “one who restores,” and restaurant = “restore+ant,” and refered to the product being served restorative broths/bouilions restaurants. Eventually the thing name morphed into the place name.
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...
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Phoebe lived the last 20 years of her life in Quincy, MA—a town named for the man who enslaved her parents, herself, and her five siblings.
The name "Phoebe Abdee" never appears in the archives. The Adams Papers editors likely constructed this name in the 1960s.
The woman known as Phoebe Abdee, Phebe Savil Oliphant, was born enslaved in Col. John Quincy's household. She helped raise Quincy's granddaughter, Abigail Adams, and maintained a life-long connection to Abigail and her family. elevennames.substack.com/p/abigail-ad...
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...
Phoebe lived the last 20 years of her life in Quincy, MA—a town named for the man who enslaved her parents, herself, and her five siblings.
The name "Phoebe Abdee" never appears in the archives. The Adams Papers editors likely constructed this name in the 1960s.
The woman known as Phoebe Abdee, Phebe Savil Oliphant, was born enslaved in Col. John Quincy's household. She helped raise Quincy's granddaughter, Abigail Adams, and maintained a life-long connection to Abigail and her family. elevennames.substack.com/p/abigail-ad...
Dropping tomorrow. Also, the name "Phoebe Abdee" was likely constructed in the 1960s. I reveal two surnames *Phebe went by, and I can name her parents and original enslaver. Hint: a local municipality is named after her original enslaver.
I’m not always a fan of statues, but I like the women’s memorial. One thing I’ll note is that Abigail supported Phoebe for the last 30 years of her life. Phoebe spent that time living in homes owned by the Adamses.
Who wants to know more about Phoebe Abdee, the enslaved woman who helped raise Abigail Adams? I’m polishing up a new piece. But for now: www.historynet.com/abigail-adam...
Thank you for sharing, Dr. DeAngelis! I’m trying to limit social media, but I come to this thread every time I return to BlueSky.
26. 1783 discharge for Primus Slocum of Rehoboth/Seekonk, Massachusetts, who served as a fifer in the 1st Rhode Island during the Revolutionary War.
Learn more about Primus Slocum (and many other enslaved people in southeastern Mass) from Wayne Tucker:
@elevennames.bsky.social
eleven-names.com
Reposting this thread because it is good in so many ways.
Side note:
@elevennames.bsky.social did a piece on Betty Cooper awhile back
elevennames.substack.com/p/january-3-...
On Feb 23 Thomas was arrested for encouraging enslaved people in Natick to free themselves next time the militia was called out.
He was jailed in Concord until May, when a court ruled there was no evidence & freed him.
Boston 1775 has much more on the case! tinyurl.com/y4f8ey27
#RevWarDaily 3/7
“We are not asking for favors. We are seeking justice for the people whose suffering built Harvard into what it is today,” Browne told the radio station. “Our ancestors worked for centuries without pay, and their labor fueled Harvard’s early development.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
New Episode of #BFWorld #Podcast!
Did you know that many of the food traditions that define cuisine in the United States have roots in African American culinary history?
Join Food Historian Diane M. Spivey for an exploration of the rich and complex legacy of African & African American foodways.
“The hard part of identifying Harvard slaves and their direct descendants isn’t the finding. It’s the looking. There are a million reasons not to look.” www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
Finishing work on a great episode with Leslie Harris about the history of slavery in New York City and the many important contributions Africans and African Americans made to early New York. It will be out later this month.
Holy cow
Anyone here study Zerviah Gould Mitchell? I may have an unpublished poem of hers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zerviah...
I want to write about Zerviah’s (posible) poem in my newsletter, but if there are people more knowledgeable than me, I want them to have the first crack.
