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Lost Years Recovered John Peters and Phillis Wheatley Peters in Middleton

Cornelia H. Dayton
Publisher: Journals Gateway
The New England Quarterly (2021) 94 (3): 309–351.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1162/tneq_a_00901
Published: 03 September 2021
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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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