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BOS (P) Cultural BB--- Visit to Royall House and Slave Quarters
Tour & Lunch
Saturday, October 7 1:00pm
15 George Street, Medford
The Royall House and Slave Quarters functions as a site of memory. In the eighteenth century, the plantation was home to the Royalls, the largest slaveholding family in Massachusetts, and at least sixty enslaved women, men, and children whose forced labor helped build the Royall family’s wealth.
As one of the only remaining freestanding quarters where enslaved people lived and worked in the North, the museum bears witness to their lives, to the intertwined stories of wealth and bondage in pre-Revolutionary Massachusetts, and to the resistance and political and legal activism of enslaved and free Black people in the eighteenth century.
Exterior Slave Quarters from the house porch
Senior Rate: $10 (free if you have a MTA teachers card)
Lunch: TBD
Parking: Street parking plentiful. (Past museum, right on College Ave, right on Royall)
Don't forget to also register on TTN so we know who is going.
Registration is required
Registration cancellations will be accepted until Saturday, October 7, 2023 at 10:30 AM