New records of enslaved people in Boston, MA just dropped.

Question

The City of Boston Archeology Department is launching a new exhibit at Faneuil Hall on Friday. As a supplement, they've published a Google sheet with 813 rows of documenting the enslaved, their enslavers, the probate files in which they are listed, and often the monetary value assigned to the enslaved lives. 50 or so records come from church records.

Rows often list multiple individuals, and there are 1,369 enslaved people listed in this *work in progress*.

There are many names here, but there are also many people that have been anonymized in dehumanizing ways such as "Old Negro Man 59 years old, not worth valuing."

I figured some WikiTree'ers might be interested.

Here's the spreadsheet:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/189BThAbZhALJwjIfxW26sKSyoOLM1mLz/edit#gid=1892035562

Boston Slavery Exhibit:
https://www.boston.gov/departments/archaeology/boston-slavery-exhibit

Answer 1

Thanks so much for sharing this, Wayne! I'll pass this to our resources team for the US Black Heritage Project so we don't lose the information. It would be great to see profiles for all of them.

Comments

Wayne Tucker, thank you so very much for sharing.

This is so amazing that it is documented but really stinks the way they were treated.

Answer 2

Thank you Wayne! Fantastic resource that really contributes to the US Black Heritage Project!