Blast into Newton's Historic Past: Field Trip to the Jackson Homestead and Museum
Group 4 toured a mansion formerly home to the Jackson family that served as a stop on the Underground Railroad to lead to slave's freedom. We discovered what life was life for New England's early settlers, including what utensils they used and what songs they listened to. We learned about the abolition movement in Newton and how the Jackson family used their home as a sanctuary for slaves. We also examined the photographs, clothing, artifacts and other primary sources in the Jackson residence of the 1800s, and had the opportunity to guess what some of the utensils were.
"I went into Henry Box Brown's [a 19th century slave] box which he traveled in to get from Virginia to Philadelphia. I can fit in easily, but he was more than 6 feet tall!" -Miranda
Campers were able to get a sense of the danger of slave escape by volunteering to crawl into a reproduction of a box used by a man (Henry Box Brown) to mail himself to freedom, and try on a collar made to punish a man for trying to escape from slavery.
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