Jayne Morley Harvard Square

https://legacyofslavery.harvard.edu/report/intellectual-leadership-harvard-slavery-and-its-legacies-before-and-after-the-civil-war    New England, particularly Massachusetts history with slavery is long and rocky. Despite passing laws banning slavery and slave trade the issue persisted through loop holes and back channels. Even when outright slavery and become illegal propaganda depicted African’s as animals and were classified as “zoological” in Harvard museums.      Harvard scientists and laboratories within the square were well involved in the rise of eugenics research during the late 1800’s. Professor Dudley Allen Sargent recorded extensive and harmful research on the physical fitness and attributes of the Harvard population. This research was conducted with the intention of redeeming white superiority within athletics in Boston. While this doesn’t fit entirely under the term “slavery” these people were subjected to embarrassing and grueling testing without ...

       Joanna (Prentice) Cook was born to Solomon and Lydia Prentice in Cambridge, Massachusetts, on February 5th, 1710. Although Joanna’s father was born in Massachusetts in the mid 1600’s, the last name, Prentice, is believed to have both Scottish and English origins. The Prentice family must have been early immigrants to the America’s and therefore established strong roots in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. “In 1726 she married Samuel Cook and is believed to have had at least 10 children”. (1) She died in 1772 at age 63; cause unknown.      During Joanna’s lifetime she would have seen the drastic increase in violence and war between, not only, the native Americans and the colonists, but also between the colonists and the British empire. She witnessed events such as the French and Indian war in 1754, the British Sugar and Stamp Acts, and most famous, the Boston Massacre. She, unfortunately, died 4 years before the colonists gained independence from Bri...

https://www.britannica.com/topic/flag-of-Massachusetts The Massachusetts state flag depicts the form of a Native American standing within a blue shield accompanied by a silver star. The silver star represents statehood as well as the arm with the sword pictured above the shield. The Latin saying around the edge of the blue shield means, “by the sword we seek peace, but peace only under liberty”. This flag serves as an interesting memorial of the history of the Massachusett tribes as they fought, for well over a century, for their rights and liberties. Although during some periods of time they were accepted into the statehood, tribes, such as the Mashpees, had to revolt numerous times in order to obtain the things necessary for survival, such as land and hunting rights.  The Massachusett tribes believed in, what I would refer to, as raw liberty. They believed that, not only themselves, but also animals, had an innate liberty which demanded respect. Anglo-Saxon colonists believed in ...