On this day 250 years ago, the town of Medford, Massachusetts adopted resolutions in support of the Patriots of Boston that asserted the British Government intended “to fasten the Chains of Slavery upon a burden’d and distressed people” and that “We wish to maintain Constitutional Liberty ourselves,” The Medford Resolves, however further objected to the “Iniquitous practice of enslaving the Affricans.” The Resolves declared it “Greatly absurd for us to plead for Liberty and yet patronise the most Cruel Servitude and Bondage” to those who “have not the least Shadow of Liberty Remaining.”