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By C. S. Manegold
Ten Hills Farm tells the strong saga of 5 generations of slave vendors in colonial New England. Settled in 1630 through John Winthrop--who could later develop into governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony--Ten Hills Farm was once a six-hundred-acre property simply north of Boston. Winthrop, recognized for envisioning his 'city at the hill' and lauded as a paragon of justice, owned slaves on that flooring and handed the 1st legislations in North the United States condoning slavery. during this spell binding narrative, C. S. Manegold exposes how the fates of the land and the households that lived on it have been certain to America's such a lot tragic and tainted legacy. difficult obtained rules approximately the US and the Atlantic global, Ten Hills Farm digs deep to deliver the tale of slavery within the North complete circle--from concealment to restoration.
Manegold follows the compelling story from the early 17th to the early twenty-first century, from New England, throughout the South, to the sprawling slave plantations of the Caribbean. John Winthrop, recognized for envisioning his "city at the hill" and lauded as a paragon of justice, owned slaves on that floor and handed the 1st legislations in North the USA condoning slavery. every one successive proprietor of Ten Hills Farm--from John Usher, who was once born into funds, to Isaac Royall, who started as a humble carpenter's son and made his fortune in Antigua--would depend on slavery's gains until eventually the 1780s, whilst Massachusetts abolished the perform. In time, the land turned a urban, its questionable earlier discreetly buried, till now.
demanding obtained rules approximately the United States and the Atlantic global, Ten Hills Farm digs deep to deliver the tale of slavery within the North complete circle--from concealment to recovery.
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The rest of the letter was taken up with the matter of supplies and provisions. The winter would prove hard on everyone. By the spring of 1631 the family estate at Groton Manor was sold for £4,200, an amount rather less than the family expected, and proof, according to Winthrop descendant Robert C. Winthrop, of the significant sacrifice the leader of the Puritans made on behalf of the new colony. Much of that money went to settle existing debts. But enough was left over for Governor Winthrop to develop a peaceful country estate well outside the buzz and squalor of the growing villages of Charlestown, Boston, and Newtowne.
With that decided, Winthrop organized himself and paced the decks. In the last days before the fleet embarked, the new governor observed the Arbella’s captain, Peter Milborne, with all his many preparations for the sailing. A crew of fifty-two was hard at work, heaving barrels, mending sails, and stowing last-minute provisions. Twice that number of passengers shuffled aboard and found their way to cramped and musty spaces down below. By slow degrees as these last hours clicked by, Winthrop gently turned away from the rolling hills of England and all that he had ever known to point his will and energy toward his new life in a new land.
Yet he never did forget it. Nor would he let it go. ” He wanted a piece of it. And he set about obtaining it, cheering, as he did so, the providential fact that thousands of Native Americans throughout the region “are swept awaye by the small poxe, . . ” Before another year was up the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony would take the ground that he liked best, granted, as he was, a gracious swath of land beside the Mystic, not for the noisy center of a grand experiment, but rather as a place for peace and contemplation.