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360 Slavery and Freedom in Massachusetts

Published: June 20, 2023, 5 a.m.

Juneteenth is a holiday that celebrates and commemorates the end of slavery in the United States. We choose to reflect on the end of slavery in the United States on June 19, because, on June 19, 1865, United States General Gordon Granger issued his General Order No. 3 in Galveston, Texas, informing Texans that all slaves are free.

Juneteenth may feel like it is a mid-19th-century moment, but the end of slavery didn\u2019t just occur on one day or at one time. And it didn\u2019t just occur in the mid-19th century. The fight to end slavery was a long process that started during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.\xa0

Kyera Singleton, the Executive Director of the Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford, Massachusetts, has spent years researching the lives of the enslaved people who lived and worked on the Royall Plantation and the significant contributions they made to ending slavery in Massachusetts. Kyera joins us to investigate the story of slavery and freedom within the first state in the United States to legally abolish slavery.

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