Lee Mansion and Slave Quarters – Marblehead, Massachusetts
The Jeremiah Lee Mansion and Slave Quarters were built by the Lee family in 1768. The quarters building served as a detached kitchen, unusual in Colonial New England, and as a coach house. Furthermore, sources dating back to the mid-19th century identify the structure as the living quarters for Lee’s four enslaved individuals, making it only one of three extant detached slave quarters in New England.
MUSE Consulting is working with Proun Design on a plan for the new exhibit in the rehabilitated kitchen/quarters, along with a comprehensive reinterpretation of the mansion and grounds.
Botton: Courtesy of Proun Design.
Surratt House Museum – Clinton, Maryland
We’re working with Surratt House Museum – home of convicted Lincoln-conspirator Mary Surratt, her family, and the eight people she enslaved – a historic property of The Maryland-National Capital
Park and Planning Commission and its Department of Parks and Recreation for Prince George’s County. In consultation with community activists, local educators, child psychologists, and public
historians, we are developing a comprehensive and conscientious elementary-aged school program based on Maryland’s state standards of learning. The program will focus on the lives of the enslaved and free people on this antebellum Maryland plantation.
King’s Chapel – Boston, Massachusetts
In partnership with Sarah Jencks from Every Museum a Civic Museum, we are working with King’s Chapel – Boston’s first Anglican Church and America’s first Christian Unitarian church – to develop an interpretive plan for their Public History Program and help them coordinate community outreach for their memorialization and reparations work. King’s Chapel is creating a physical and living memorial (financial reparations) to the 219 people who were enslaved by ministers and members of the congregation in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries “that will serve as a site for reflection, a catalyst for conversation, an inspiration for activism, and a beacon of hope.”
