Boston has announced that committees have been formed to look into the city’s past with slaves and to evaluate suggestions for reparations.
The Boston Reparations Task Force, according to Mayor Michelle Wu, will investigate and record the city’s historical connections to the transatlantic slave trade, the institution of slavery, and its legacy.
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Mayor Michelle Wu claimed, “I’m grateful to these teams of historians who will serve our city by documenting Boston’s role in the trans-Atlantic slave trade and the myriad legacies of slavery that continue to impact the daily lives of our city’s communities.”
The impact that slavery had on the city’s descendants up until the present will be one of the historical topics that researchers will look into.
In December 2022, the Boston City Council decided to establish a task team to look at the historical and contemporary effects of slavery in the city.
For years, campaigners in Boston have demanded that the city make amends for its involvement in slavery. The first Black state senator from Massachusetts, Bill Owens, originally put out the notion of reparations in the 1980s. In 2022, he passed away.
