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  • Historian and scholar Robert Bellinger outside the Buckman Tavern in Lexington. The town’s Historical Society has launched a study of the presence of enslaved people during the Revolutionary War in Lexington. JONATHAN WIGGS/GLOBE STAFF

    Lexington Confronts History of Slavery in Liberty’s Birthplace

    Some of the same Lexington townspeople who took up arms to fight for freedom on April 19, 1775, were slave owners. And one of them was enslaved.
    by Nancy Shohet West via Boston Globe on April 16, 2021
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