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Boston-Area “Plantation” Histories: An Illustrated Talk
EVENT: Historian and speaker Joel Mackall
DATE: Tuesday, Feb. 10
TIME: 7pm-8:30pm
LOCATION: Wellesley Free Library, 530 Washington St.
DESCRIPTION: In this powerful illustrated talk, local historian Joel Mackall uncovers the hidden histories of enslaved Africans who lived and labored on Boston-area estates. Focusing on sites like the Royall House in Medford, the Brattle Street estates in Cambridge, the Loring-Greenough House in Jamaica Plain, and the Shirley-Eustis House in Roxbury, Mackall reveals how these properties—often overlooked in narratives of slavery—were built on and sustained by the labor of enslaved people and the profits of plantation wealth.
