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Plain Sight Project Makes It Harder To Look Away

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The brick for

The brick for "Gene" is unveiled.

The project scours historical documents like this one to find the names of people who were enslaved on the East End.

The project scours historical documents like this one to find the names of people who were enslaved on the East End.

Emily Weitz on Jul 4, 2022
It was a convenient narrative of most New Englanders to think of the history of slavery in the United States as a Southern stain. But the truth is that people... more

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