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Historian highlights Brookline’s enslaved residents and proposes interpretive sign at town‑hall plaque
Summary
Barbara Brown of Hidden Brookline briefed the Select Board on local enslaved residents named on a town‑hall plaque and urged the board to add an interpretive sign identifying three enslaved men and their role in the Revolutionary War era.
Barbara Brown, founder of Hidden Brookline, used the Select Board’s public‑comment period on April 15 to outline research on enslaved people in Brookline and to urge the town to add interpretive signage near a town‑hall plaque.
Brown said she founded the Hidden Brookline project in 2006 after discovering that names of three enslaved men (listed on a town plaque in abbreviated form) were effectively invisible to…
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