Eighteenth-Century Woman Born into Slavery Honored by Penguin Hall Students

Last fall, students at The Academy at Penguin Hall in Wenham who took my elective course “Out of the Shadows” were asked to identify an area woman who was held as a slave in the eighteenth century and who was buried in an unmarked grave. If they could find such a woman, I asked, would they be willing to give her a proper gravestone? Were they up to the challenge? Elise Welch remembers thinking that “huge, seemingly impossible ideas usually come from students, but this one came from the teacher.” Classmate Caroline Buck of Andover answered the call and made swift work of locating such a woman. Within days, Buck announced to the class,

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Eighteenth-Century Woman Born into Slavery Honored by Penguin Hall Students

Students at the Academy at Penguin Hall lay a gravestone for the woman born into slavery in 1767 and buried in an unmarked grave.

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