Abstract
A cache of Essex County legal papers reveals that when Phillis Wheatley Peters and her husband left Boston in 1780, they moved to Middleton where John became a landowner on a farm where he had been enslaved. I analyze the racial, class, and gender conflicts that led to their eviction.
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2021
The New England Quarterly
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