Monthly Speaker Series: Treyton Littlejohn

We have been taught to read Boston’s history through its marked graves, memorials, and

storied cemeteries. But what about the history that was intentionally buried? This research

draws on original archival findings to examine how racial segregation in 18th- and 19th-century

Boston extended into the realm of death, and how the burial practices imposed upon Black

Bostonians reveal a structural denial of memory, dignity, and civic belonging. In forming a

growing database of over 4,000 non-White individuals buried between 1700 and 1860, this