Slavery in Brookline was both common and ordinary.
Forty-two white families enslaved roughly ninety people.
White families owned all the land, after they had forced the Indigenous people off the land and out of town.
Being enslaved here meant living in a deeply skewed society, as owners had deliberately bought twice as many men as women.
Yet, against great odds, enslaved people found ways to assert their humanity and even to self-emancipate.
White families owned all the land, after they had forced the Indigenous people off the land and out of town.
Being enslaved here meant living in a deeply skewed society, as owners had deliberately bought twice as many men as women.
Yet, against great odds, enslaved people found ways to assert their humanity and even to self-emancipate.
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Last updated Aug 10 2020.
