How many streets in Northampton are named after enslavers? I recently posed that question to Elizabeth Sacktor, the educational program manager for Historic Northampton as we stood next to a placard that lists 33 Northampton households that owned slaves. That panel is part of Historic Northampton’s profound and intense exhibit, “Slavery and Freedom in Northampton 1654 (when Northampton was founded) – 1783 (when the […]
