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Third Week - Saturday's “Medfield Historical Minute”
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis.
A Medfield Historical Minute...
This "Medfield Historical Minute" is brought to you by town historian Richard DeSorgher.
A little something to read and learn to give you a little break during this time of boredom during isolation due to the Coronavirus Crisis.
A different "Medfield Historical Minute" will appear each day during the Crisis.
"Slavery prevailed in Medfield during the 1700s. Rev. Joseph Baxter in his will dictated that his African-American slave be willed to his wife upon his death but to be set free upon his wife’s death. Warwick and Newport Green were slaves brought from Africa and came to Medfield from Rhode Island where they were set free. Both served in the Revolutionary War. Massachusetts was the first state to abolish slavery outright, doing so by judicial decree in 1783."
