Illuminating Truth: A Special Presentation on Parsons House

An Outdoor Slideshow by Whitney Designworks

Graphic silhouettes and historic documents from the new exhibit Slavery and Freedom in Northampton, 1654 to 1783 will be projected onto the 1719 Parsons family house at 58 Bridge Street in Northampton in an outdoor slideshow by Whitney Designworks of Northampton.

For at least 129 years, slavery was part of the fabric of everyday life in Northampton. At least 50 enslaved individuals lived here from the town’s English settlement in 1654 until 1783 when slavery was abolished in Massachusetts. The outdoor slideshow features graphic silhouettes of men, women, and children who were enslaved here.