MINI-COMICS / NH’s Black Revolutionaries
A spring wetlands walk uncovers a local history mystery…
Early New England towns were predominantly Protestant in religion & culture, so they did NOT name places after Roman statesmen! However, 18th century enslavers often imposed names from Roman antiquity on the people they enslaved. Thus the relatively few Latin toponyms often record the presence of slavery — Such is the case with “Caesar’s Brook” in Amherst, NH.
So who was Caesar Porter?
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