April 2024
Out of Breath: Slavery, Ventilation, and the Emergence of Epidemiology
The Royall House & Slave Quarters welcomes Tufts University's Center for the Study of Race and Democracy and the Tufts Center for Black Maternal Health and Reproductive Justice for a lecture and conversation on slavery, its legacies, and the medical humanities. Keynote speaker will be Dr. Jim Downs, author of "Maladies of Empire: How Colonialism, Slavery, and War Transformed Medicine" and "Sick from Freedom: African American Illness and Suffering During the Civil War and Reconstruction." A deeply interdisciplinary scholar of…
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Royall House Spring Clean-up Day
It's time to prepare the Royall House & Slave Quarters grounds for the museum's 2024 tour season, which opens on June 8. Spring clean-up tasks will include general raking, pruning, and sprucing up of the property. Some tools will be available, but if you have garden rakes or other tools please bring them. For more information, please email event coordinator Lindsay Rider.
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