Quock Walker & the Ending of Slavery in Massachusetts

Quock Walker was a Black man from Barre, MA who fled from his enslavement and sued to get his freedom. This video looks at his story, and how Quock’s case led to the “legal end” of slavery in MA.

⏰TIME STAMPS⏰

0:58 Quock’s upbringing
2:13 Broken promises of freedom
2:49 Quock’s escape
3:57 Worcester County Court
5:01 The Court Cases
7:44 Significance of Quock’s Court Cases
9:44 Food adventure in Worcester

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📗 SOURCES📗

A special thanks to Robert Stacy-Salisbury Mansion, Edward L. Bell-Massachusetts Historical Commission, and Margaret Marshall- Barre Historical Society for your help researching this topic!

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Bell, Edward L. “Freeing Eral Lonnon: a Mashpee Indian Presumed a Fugitive Slave in Louisiana, and the Role of Native People in the History of Judicial Abolition in Massachusetts”. The Atlantic Black Box Project. https://atlanticblackbox.com/2019/05/...

Blanck Emily. “Seventeen Eighty-Three: The Turning Point in the Law of Slavery and Freedom in Massachusetts”. The New England Quarterly Inc

Browne, Patrick. “Quock Walker and Emancipation in Massachusetts”. Historical Digression https://historicaldigression.com/tag/...

“Legal notes by William Cushing about the Quock Walker case, 1783”. Massachusetts Historical Society.
https://www.masshist.org/database/vie...

“Massachusetts Constitution and the Abolition of Slavery”. Commonwealth of Massachusetts https://www.mass.gov/guides/massachus...

Massachusetts Cultural Resource Information System- https://mhc-macris.net/
Nathaniel Jennison House (BAR.216) & James Caldwell House (BAR.317) are in this inventory.

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“Quock Walker v. Nathaniel Jennison”. Teaching American History. https://teachingamericanhistory.org/d...

“Quock Walker, 28, Kicks the Legs Out From Under Slavery in Massachusetts”. New England Historical Society. https://www.newenglandhistoricalsocie...

“Site Of The Second Worcester County Courthouse''. Worcester’s Revolution: A Town that Defied an Empire. http://revolutionaryworcester.org/ite...

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