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The Massachusetts Body of Liberties was the first legal code established in New England, compiled by Puritan minister Nathaniel Ward. The laws were established by the Massachusetts General Court in 1641. The Body of Liberties begins by establishing the exclusive right of the General Court to legislate and dictate the "Countenance of Authority".
In 1670, Massachusetts made it legal for the children of slaves to be sold into bondage. [41] By 1680, the colony had laws restricting the movements of blacks. [41] A 1703 law required owners to post a bond for all slaves to protect towns in the case that a slave became indigent should the master refuse to continue caring for him or her. [42]
African and Native American slaves made up a smaller part of the New England economy, which was based on yeoman farming and trades, than in the South, and a smaller fraction of the population, but they were present. [64] Most were house servants, but some worked at farm labor. [65] The Puritans codified slavery in 1641.
In 1850, Brown founded his first militant, anti-slavery organization – The League of the Gileadites – in Springfield, to protect escaped slaves from 1850s Fugitive Slave Act. Massachusetts was a hotbed of abolitionism – particularly the progressive cities of Boston and Springfield – and contributed to subsequent actions of the state ...
The history of a Massachusetts beach named after an enslaved African American is the focus of new efforts to recognize the role of slavery in the state. Enslaved man who inspired beach name and ...
Chapter 162 of the Acts of 1997: An Act Designating the Song "The Great State of Massachusetts" as the State Glee Club Song ^ Chapter 17 of the Acts of 2003: An Act Designating the Bay State Tartan as the Official Tartan of the Commonwealth ^ Chapter 407 of the Acts of 2004: An Act Designating the Official Colors of the Commonwealth
Because of a loophole in the Tariff Act of 1930, which allowed Customs and Border Protection to seize shipments where slave labor was suspected, goods produced by forced labor were still being ...
A Massachusetts teacher has been placed on leave after the district’s superintendent learned of them holding a mock-slave auction in a 5th-grade classroom and using the N-word, according to a ...