Discovery of Our Interconnected Legacies in Portsmouth: New Hampshire’s Slavery History
Portsmouth Public Library-Levenson Room 175 Parrott Ave, PortsmouthPrince Whipple, a young native of Africa, was transported during the Atlantic slave trade to America, and enslaved by William Whipple, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. In 1779, Prince Whipple, together with 19 other enslaved Africans, submitted a Petition for Freedom to the New Hampshire state legislature. Centuries later, the descendants of African Prince Whipple and the white Whipple and Moffatt families join together in Portsmouth in a conversation about their discoveries of slavery and its legacy through…
