Now through May 1, 2016

African American Thomas Dugan (1747-1827) was born almost thirty years before the start of the American Revolution and was enslaved in Virginia. It is not known how he came to be free, but he arrived in Concord by about 1791 where he lived as a free man, married, raised a family, and farmed his seven acres. This exhibition at the Concord Museum attempts to visualize the furnishings of Dugan’s house and barn as listed in the probate inventory.