Ten Hills Farm: The Forgotten History of Slavery in the North

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Index Abba (slave), xxiii, 178 abolition, 118 Adams, John, 58 Adams, John Quincy, 240 Adams, Samuel, 236 Aetna, Inc., and slavery reparations, 246 Africa, 4, 45, 81, 98, 109–12, 250 Africans, 43; in Antigua, 127; community of, 114; importation of, 110, 121–22; in New England, 129, 139, 154, 250; population of 46, 154; sale of, 140; slave trade, 99, 247; slave trade route, xxiii; smuggling of, 111–12 Agawam, Massachusetts, 67, 73; experiment, 78 America, 4, 28, 53, 72–76, 86, 88; Antiquarian Society of, 271, 274, 291–93; and British rule, 197–98; and conflict with England, 208–9, 232; early economy, 48, 275; as experiment, 36; first debate over morality of slavery in, 120; first fire engine in, 190; first legal case of reparations in, 236; Francis Higginson sails to, 31; history and culture, 268; and reparations, 246; and timber industry, 99, 100 American Dream, 53 American Revolution, 129, 213, 215, 220–25, 234, 252, 253, 297 Anno domini 1630, 6, 31 Antigua, xxi, xxiii, 20, 63, 81, 86, 107, 117, 125–44, 272–74, 282, 290–91; cane crops (see sugar cane); discovered by Christopher Columbus, 126; genocide in, 127; Governor Daniel Parke, 145–47; island politics, 148; loss of native culture , 136; planting conditions, 150–51; Popeshead District, 139, 148, 160, 167, 170, 179; population of whites in, 134, 153; ratio of blacks and whites in, 154; resistance of native population toward slavery, 127, 161–62; slave and white communities within and from, 176, 178–82; slave trade, 154; slaves executed in, 161; slaves freed, 162; social life in, 144; tobacco crops, 128 Arlington, Massachusetts, xix, 70 Assawompsett Pond, 90 Atlantic passage, 110 Attucks, Crispus, 206, 225 Barbados, xxi, 7–10; slave colony in, 54; slave economies, 63; slave trade route, 45; sugar and, 81, 86, 97–100, 110, 117; tobacco plantation, 12 Battle of Bunker Hill, 217, 223, 272, 296–97; American casualties, 221; British casualties, 220–21 Battle of Lexington and Concord, 213–14, 215, 225, 296–97 Beggars Point, xiv, 125, 272 Belcher, Andrew, 111, 139, 176 Belcher, Jonathan, governor of Massachusetts and New Jersey, 139, 168; and Princeton University, 139–40, 157–59, 185 Belinda (slave), xxii; 154, 190, 201, 203, 228, 232–36, 245, 249, 254–55, 297 “Big Dig,” the, 71, 106 312 INDEX bond slavery, 46 Boston, xviii–xxii, 23–24, 26, 93–96; economy of, 80, 203; freedom for slaves in, 207; Merchants Row, 103, 139; and Pequot War, 40–41; population surge of whites and blacks, 160; and powder house raid, 211; siege of, 204, 214–18, 221–22; slaves en route to West Indies from, 43–45, 140, 222; slaves in, 47, 76, 160, 166, 180–81, 187; trade in, 82, 267 “Boston Brahmins,” 102–3 “Boston Massacre,” 207 Boston University, xix, 113–14 Bradford, William, 41–42, 87, 281 Brattle, William, 188, 212 Breed’s Hill, 217–18, 220, 225 Bristol, Rhode Island. See Rhode Island Brown, Elizabeth, xxii, 141, 177 Brown University, 246–47 Bunker Hill. See Battle of Bunker Hill Burke, Edmund, 212 Cambridge, Massachusetts, xvii–xx, xxii; 23–24, 62–63, 70, 85, 89, 142, 166, 175–79, 181, 183, 185, 223–24, 246, 272, 275, 292, 296, 300; financial need for slaves in, 207; Historical Society of, 187–18, 203, 227 Canary Islands, 45 cane. See sugar cane Cape Verde, 45 Caribbean, xii, 3–4; African slaves in, 98–99, 110; court case, 184; slaves purchased in, 48, 62–64; trade in, 81, 132; triangle trade, 250, 284, 291 Casco Bay, Maine, 59, 88, 92, 102–4, 282–83 Charlestown, xvii, xix, 23–26, 68, 70–71, 92, 102, 139; burning of, 218–19 Chester, Connecticut, 37 “city upon a hill,” 13, 83, 84, 239, 244, 278 Civil War, 228, 240, 253, 274 Cole, Samuel, 59 Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 137 Connecticut, 9, 20, 37, 85, 88; first white child born in, 39; 74, John Winthrop Jr. sails to, 80–81; slavery and, 268; white population after war, 93 Connecticut River Valley, 37 constitution. See U.S. Constitution. See also Massachusetts; Vermont Copley, John Singleton, 186, 190 cotton, 43, 99 Cradock, Mathew, 26–27; governor in England, 54; Massachusetts Bay Company ’s first governor, 9–13 Cradock Bridge, 29, 67–68, 72, 106, 156, 213 CSX Corp., and slavery reparations, 246 Cuba (slave), xxiii; 178–79, 189, 207, 227 Daughters of the American Revolution, 253 Deep River, Connecticut, 37 Deer Island, 93 disease, 3, 8, 55; in Antigua, 148; and...