Museum of African American History | Boston and Nantucket
Investigating History Grade 5 Unit 2
Includes Corydon's receipt for buying his own freedom
This page is part of the MHS web feature "African Americans and the End of Slavery in MA"; this page links to the four freedom petitions in the MHS collections, 1773-1777
Col. John Ashley House exhibit labels on Elizabeth Freeman and slavery at the Ashley House (Trustees of Reservations)
Co-Curated by Dr. Kyera Singleton, Dr. Jared Hardesty and archeologist Joseph Bagley
includes primary sources and additional information
The Porter-Phelps-Huntington House Museum in Hadley, MA has developed a series of cohesive biographies of the six people enslaved t the farmstead in the 18th century.
Exhibit panels from the Porter-Phelps-Huntington House Museum in Hadley, MA explore what the Revolution meant to a diverse array of people living and working on the farmstead.