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Brown Corpus
When the Negroes landed at Boston a month later they were, of course, no longer slaves.
Slavery was prohibited in Massachusetts by the terms of the constitution of 1780, which declared `` all men are born free and equal ''.
Nevertheless, Palfrey arranged a religious ceremony at King's Chapel to formalize the emancipation.
An eyewitness recalled how awkward the red-turbaned colored women appeared as they curtseyed in the church doorway, and the diffidence the former slaves displayed while they listened to the few words that declared them free.
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