‘Everybody has their eyes on America’: Black Lives Matter goes global
15 min
How New England kept slavery at a distance whilst profiting from its trade. Entangled with, yet critical of, colonial oppression and the evils of slavery, the true history of Boston can now be told. Mark Peterson — a professor of history at Yale University — examines why its political economy, not its Puritans, is the basis of this city-state’s distinctive place in world history.