Boston has created a new database and made it available to the public: what is believed to be first public database of its kind in the country: a city-commissioned record of people who were enslaved in the pre-abolition era in Boston.
The database, which is now posted on the city’s website, lists 2,357 Black and Indigenous people enslaved in Boston between 1641 and 1783, the year Massachusetts abolished slavery. And researchers believe that number is only a fraction of what they can ultimately compile.
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