The Royall House & Slave Quarters invites you to the premiere of its new museum tour video. This virtual museum experience will allow the RHSQ to continue to serve as a vital resource on the history of Northern slavery for local communities while its remains closed due to COVID-19, and for those at a distance when the site reopens. The virtual tour uses the history of the Royall family, a local slave-trading family, to tell the often forgotten history of Northern slavery and the North’s role in the global slave trade. More importantly, the video centers on the lives and labor of enslaved people to tell a complex story about resistance and freedom and demonstrate how Black people were crucial to ending slavery in Massachusetts.