Slavery in Jamaica Plain
First Church in Jamaica Plain 6 Eliot Street, Jamaica PlainAt least 27 Africans were enslaved in Jamaica Plain in the 1700s. Hidden Jamaica Plain will present an overview of slavery in Jamaica Plain. This history includes land theft, enslavement first of Indigenous people and then expansion to Africans. Massachusetts Bay was the first English colony in North America to legalize slavery in 1641. Chattel slavery existed in Massachusetts at the time of the American Revolution, and several Jamaica Plain patriots were enslavers. Hidden Jamaica…