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Land/Mark: Enslavement, Resistance and Revolution (Main) In-Person
Join the Cambridge Public Library for a symposium exploring themes of the Revolution and the history of Mark, Phillis and Phoebe. Mark and Phillis were two enslaved people who were publicly executed in Cambridge in 1755 after being found guilty of fatally poisoning John Codman, the man who enslaved them. After the execution, Mark's body was gibbeted, displayed publicly in chains on Charlestown Common, for many years.
Symposium participants will include Kyera Singleton, Executive Director of the Royall House and Slave Quarters and Postdoctoral Fellow at Tufts University's Slavery, Colonialism, and their Legacies at Tufts Initiative, as well as Brandeis University legal historian Dan Breen and others. The keynote speaker for the event will be Kellie Carter Jackson, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and the Chair of the Africana Studies Department Wellesley College. Registration is required.
- Date:
- Saturday, June 13, 2026
- Time:
- 11:00am - 3:30pm
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Community Room, Lecture Hall
- Branches:
- Main Library
- Audience:
- Adult
- Categories:
- City Event Feature Presentation/Lecture
The event is sponsored by Mass Humanities through its Expanding Massachusetts Stories/Promises of the Revolution program. Co-sponsors of the event include the Royall House & Slave Quarters, The Somerville Museum, History Cambridge and the Cambridge Public Library.