On Wednesday, September 8, 2021, The Boston Globe published an article entitled "Boston sheds more light on its relationship to slavery" in which AAAS Graduate Student Aabid Allibhai is featured for his research on enslaved people at the Shirley-Eustis House in Roxbury, Massachusetts. Mr. Allibhai's research report titled, “Working Report on Slavery at the Shirley-Eustis House,” is attached as an addendum to the Shirley-Eustis House's petition to be designated a city landmark now published on the City of Boston's website. At a celebration and signing ceremony at the Shirley-Eustis House on Friday, August 20, 2021, to coincide with the 402nd anniversary of the first enslaved Africans arriving in Virginia, Boston Mayor Kim Janey and the Boston Landmarks Commission recognized Mr. Allibhai's research and report. Mr. Allibhai states the most interesting finding from his report is that oral history suggests that a still-standing eighteenth-century structure (42-44 Shirley Street, privately owned but approved as a city landmark along with the Shirley-Eustis House) served as the estate’s slave quarters. This makes 42-44 Shirley Street one of only two still-standing slave quarters in the northern United States (the other being the slave quarters at the Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford, MA). To read Mr. Allibhai's report visit the City of Boston website.
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