Lucy Foster was born into slavery in Boston and was freed when she was 16. She was buried in an unmarked grave in 1845. Thanks to a class of high school students in Massachusetts, Lucy Foster now has a headstone.
Last fall, Dr. Linda Meditz tasked the students in her"Out of the Shadows" class with uncovering the story of a woman who was held in slavery in early New England and was buried in an unmarked grave, according to a statement from the school, The Academy at Penguin Hall.They found Lucy Foster. Foster was born into slavery in Boston and given as a"wedding gift" to Hannah and Jacob Foster, according to the school.
With shovels in hand and funds they raised themselves, the teens gave Lucy Foster the gravestone she never had before.The students worked with a historian and an anthropologist to find a proper place to commemorate Foster and write her an epitaph. "Born into captivity in Boston. Came to her freedom in Andover," the gravestone reads."Known by God and her community.
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