
eleven names project: recovering enslaved people of Massachusetts

Primus & Mary Slocum’s Afro-Wampanoag Legacies
Primus Slocum was a Black veteran in a pioneering Revolutionary War unit who became a key ancestor to contemporary Seaconke Wampanoag people.

Slavery in Hanover
Rethink what you believe about slavery and the South Shore.

Hidden Abington
Meet the enslaved and indigenous people of colonial Abington, Massachusetts.

Notes on Norwell
Stories of early black life in Norwell, Massachusetts

Deyaha Moussa
Deyaha Moussa was a Muslim kidnapped in West Africa and witnessed the Haitian Revolution combust. So how did he end up in Mattapan?

The Dudley Family of Roxbury and Their Enslaved People
Yes, the Dudleys were slaveholders.

SNAPSHOTS
Black life in Slavery-era Plymouth County as seen through the courts

The Cato Hanker Dossier
Cato Hanker was kidnapped in Africa, grew up in Framingham, and served in the French and Indian War and the Revolution.

About & Contact
The Eleven Names Project is an independent digital research project first published by Wayne Tucker on August 22, 2021.
Copyright Wayne Tucker 2022. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License