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Snapshots of enslaved life in Massachusetts by Wayne Tucker. elevennames.substack.com

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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Note that it’s a generic “your trademark matter.“ No mention of which trademark they’re reaching out about and you aren’t being addressed by name. Seems phishy to me.
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Remove the Harvard of it all, this is still a nice piece of print, photo, and video journalism. www.bostonglobe.com/2026/08/25/m...
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They knew their ancestor fought in the Revolution. No one told them he was enslaved by a Harvard overseer. - The Boston Globe
The research is part of Harvard’s long-running and controversial effort to investigate its ties to slavery.
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
4/4 Caveat: my data set needs heavy editing, but I imagine a tolerance of variance between +/- 5% - 10%. Also, this includes Boston, Cambridge, and towns in Essex County that had multiple parishes (so not exactly rural).
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
3/4Harvard ministers enslaved 290 Massachusetts residents, and I’ve identified 81.4% by name.
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
2/4 And in Massachusetts, 143 Harvard slaveholding ministers settled as clergy in 88 of the 184 towns incorporated before 1775; hence, 47.8% of colonial Massachusetts towns employed an enslaver as their spiritual authority at some point in their history.
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Here is a paragraph that I have written: 1/4 Harvard prepared 946 men for the Congregational pulpit from 1636 to 1776.
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
When this project was still at Harvard, we engaged Jessica Marie Johnson's concepts in "Markup Bodies: Black [Life] Studies and Slavery [Death] Studies at the Digital Crossroads." I'm not defending anyone, including my earlier participation, but we anticipated this critical and rightful analysis.
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I contributed to this. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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Harvard Legacy of Slavery Initiative Releases Database Identifying 1,613 Enslaved People | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery Initiative released a public database Tuesday identifying 1,613 people who were enslaved by Harvard leaders, faculty, and staff or who labored on Harvard’s campus between 1...
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
The Crimson has a non-paywall story about the Harvard slavery database. www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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Harvard Legacy of Slavery Initiative Releases Database Identifying 1,613 Enslaved People | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery Initiative released a public database Tuesday identifying 1,613 people who were enslaved by Harvard leaders, faculty, and staff or who labored on Harvard’s campus between 1...
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Harvard Legacy of Slavery Initiative Releases Database Identifying 1,613 Enslaved PeopleHarvard Legacy of Slavery Initiative Releases Database Identifying 1,613 Enslaved People www.thecrimson.com/article/2026...
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Harvard Legacy of Slavery Initiative Releases Database Identifying 1,613 Enslaved People | News | The Harvard Crimson
Harvard’s Legacy of Slavery Initiative released a public database Tuesday identifying 1,613 people who were enslaved by Harvard leaders, faculty, and staff or who labored on Harvard’s campus between 1...
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Emily J. Edwards @msemilyedwards.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
This kind of story pops up a lot in Pasadena. My favorite plant nursery was owned by a Japanese family beginning in 1923; when they were interned, Mexican neighbors ran it for two years. They handed it right back to the Takemuras when they returned to run it– for another 50 years. It's still there.
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Boogie Nights
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
Dr. Lecaque - The next time you spend time in the Boston area, please visit Formaggio Kitchen in Cambridge/Huron Ave. You may change your mind. Also: go to Montreal/Quebec.
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Sorry, last one. Corner Portuguese chicken shops are a staple in Montreal. Usually affordable and generous. montreal.eater.com/maps/montrea...
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Where to Go for Spicy, Succulent Portuguese Chicken in Montreal
A collection of essential spots for piri-piri-brushed bird
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Cheese and pastries (Kouign Aman) also wonderful.
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
I assure you it’s not adult content, lol. Montreal bagels are my favorite (seek out a St. Viateyr or Fairmont location that is still baking them onsite. Rue St Laurent is like the main thoroughfare of Mile End with cool dining and shops. And Marche Jean Talon is amazing. I liked the art Muesem.
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
restobarmajestique.com
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Accueil - MAJESTIQUE RESTO
Ce qui fait du Majestique un succès est son tout ; son ambiance festive, ses produits de qualité tant en cuisine que sur la carte de vins et le fait que la maison soit ouverte tous les jours, jusqu’à ...
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
If you have any nights in Mike End, consider dining at Le Majestique. For an old school steak frites night, consider L’Express. I loved Le Vin Pappillion, but it’s out of the way.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Happy Evacuation Day! While Boston celebrates the retreat of the British in 1776, let's also remember the Black Bostonians who found their freedom by leaving Massachusetts with the British. Pompey Fleet was a skilled printer enslaved by the Fleet family (printers/booksellers/auctioneers) in Boston
handwritten ledger showing
Pompey Fleet, 26, short & stout
Suky Coleman, 21, slight make
Sam Fleet, 5, small boy
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Jocelyn @historygirl.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
Happy Evacuation Day! 250 years ago, the Siege of Boston was broken as General Washington and others held the high ground over both Boston and the waterways forcing the British (who were just about done being stuck in Boston without food/alcohol) out. Learn more here: www.nps.gov/bost/learn/h... 🗃️
Lush green trees with Dorchester Heights Monument, a multi-story white marble monument, sprouting up in the background.
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Do you watch SLOW HORSES on AppleTV? Wait until you learn how Brits pronounce Harwich!
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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
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King’s Chapel Memorial to Enslaved Persons
King’s Chapel is creating a memorial that will serve as a site for reflection, a catalyst for conversation, an inspiration for activism, and a beacon of hope.
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Bill R aka N1VUX @bill-n1vux.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
@elevennames.bsky.social , someone is handling their enslaving clergy with visible leadership.
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
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...
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Lost Years Recovered John Peters and Phillis Wheatley Peters in Middleton
Abstract. A cache of Essex County legal papers reveals that when Phillis Wheatley Peters and her husband left Boston in 1780, they moved to Middleton where John became a landowner on a farm where he h...
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Clint Smith @clintsmithiii.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
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.
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Actually, Slavery Was Very Bad
The president’s latest criticism of museums is a thinly veiled attempt to erase Black history.
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Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
"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.
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
If you are a cheese enjoyer, try as much local fromage quebecoise as your appetite will allow. Fantastic stuff.
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
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.
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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...
Letter excerpt: Tis as you Say while Phebe has a house every Black thing will be living upon her. the day before yesterday Jonathan Rawson sent a Sick negro woman to her that had liv’d with him for Some time he took her out of Bed & sent her in a Sleigh with a Boy in a Storm to be left with her & sent word to Sussy who lives with her to get a Sleigh & carry her to Bridgwater & he would pay her for it. he sent her without any thing but a little rice & hard Biskit. she was So ill Phebe could not send her back in the Storm She had fits all that night & a watcher last. She cannot dress or undress herself. this morning Phebe sent a Letter which she had written to mr Rawson for us to send. but we thought best to let the Select men know of the affair & take care of her. how cruel in mr Rawson to behalf So—
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Jocelyn @historygirl.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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.
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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...
Photo of the house Phoebe once lived at. Title text: Abigail Adams' enslaved Black "parent." Did Phoebe model qualities recognized today as Abigail Adams' trademark feminism?
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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Abigail Adams' enslaved Black "parent"
Did Phoebe model qualities recognized today as Abigail Adams' trademark feminism?
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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...
Letter excerpt: Tis as you Say while Phebe has a house every Black thing will be living upon her. the day before yesterday Jonathan Rawson sent a Sick negro woman to her that had liv’d with him for Some time he took her out of Bed & sent her in a Sleigh with a Boy in a Storm to be left with her & sent word to Sussy who lives with her to get a Sleigh & carry her to Bridgwater & he would pay her for it. he sent her without any thing but a little rice & hard Biskit. she was So ill Phebe could not send her back in the Storm She had fits all that night & a watcher last. She cannot dress or undress herself. this morning Phebe sent a Letter which she had written to mr Rawson for us to send. but we thought best to let the Select men know of the affair & take care of her. how cruel in mr Rawson to behalf So—
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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.
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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...
Photo of the house Phoebe once lived at. Title text: Abigail Adams' enslaved Black "parent." Did Phoebe model qualities recognized today as Abigail Adams' trademark feminism?
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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.
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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.
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
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...
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Abigail Adams on 'The Only Surviving Parent I Have'
Abigail Adams and former slave Phoebe Abdee forged an unusual bond.
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
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.
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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
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
discharge paper dated 1783 for Primus Slocum, Fifer, a printed sheet with the name and date details filled in by hand
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Jean's Sands @jeans-sands.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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-...
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January 3, 2023
Issue 10: Betty Cooper, Dill Oxford, and Gender Nonconformity as Resistance to Slavery; Illustrating Hard Histories
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Laurie Halse Anderson @halseanderson.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
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
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
“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...
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Antiguan Ambassador Condemns Slavery Remembrance Program Layoffs, Demands Reparations in Letter to Garber | News | The Harvard Crimson
Antigua and Barbuda’s ambassador to the United States, Ronald M. Sanders, condemned Harvard’s decision to lay off the staff of the Harvard Slavery Remembrance Program, urging the University to step up...
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Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
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.
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Episode 404: Diane M. Spivey, How Black Chefs Shaped Early America
Discover how African American cooking influenced colonial success and the American Revolution. Culinary historian Diane M. Spivey reveals the untold story of Black culinary activism.
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
“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...
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Harvard Didn’t Just Kill Its Slavery Research Team. It Flunked History of Slavery 101. | Opinion | The Harvard Crimson
Many people are shocked and saddened at how badly Harvard has stumbled in its efforts to reveal and repair the legacy of slavery at Harvard.  These stumbles may in fact be the most eloquent expression...
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Liz Covart @lizcovart.bsky.social · 06/02/2025
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.
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Susie @bassoosie.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Holy cow
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Anyone here study Zerviah Gould Mitchell? I may have an unpublished poem of hers. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zerviah...
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Zerviah Gould Mitchell - Wikipedia
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Eleven Names Project @elevennames.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
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.
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