The Duxbury Senior Center and the Duxbury Rural & Historical Society will host an online event, “Bondage and Complicity: Slavery in Duxbury”. Duxbury, like all Northern towns, has a complicated relationship with the institution of slavery. During Colonial days, enslaved people lived and worked in this community.  After slavery ended in Massachusetts in 1783, Duxbury’s economic ties to Southern slavery continued.

Join DRHS Archivist and Historian Carolyn Ravenscroft at the Duxbury Senior Center on February 16 from 1:30-3pm to learn about the lives of the enslaved in Duxbury and the myriad ways that Duxbury’s 19th Century wealth was tied to enslaved labor.

You can register here.