Why? Black men served as minutemen. One of them was Peter Salem, who ran from his home town, Framingham, to fight at the Battle of Concord alongside Lawson Buckminster, the man who’d freed him ...

Slavery and Its Aftermath in Concord, Massachusetts, have since researched and identified Zilpha and many of the other Black squatters of Walden Woods. Zilpha (or Zilpa) White had been enslaved by ...