This is the grave of Lemuel Shaw. Born in 1781 in West Barnstable, Massachusetts, Shaw grew up as part of the old Puritan world, with family who went back to the very beginnings of white colonization. He went to Harvard, as any son of a...
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On October 14, 1840, proceedings began in Commonwealth v. Hunt, a critical early legal case that, two years later, established the right of workers to strike in the United States..