Freedom’s Way Hidden Treasures Program — Patriots, Prejudice, and Protest: The Hidden Stories of Concord’s Early African Americans

On Brister’s Hill with The Walden Woods Project
Sat. May 19 • 1:00–2:15 PM • Brister’s Hill
Meet at Hapgood Wright Town Forest Parking Lot
Our program will begin at Brister’s Hill, named after Brister Freeman, a formerly enslaved man who was the second person of African descent to own land in Concord. Peter Robbins, whose father Caesar Robbins went with Brister Freeman as a soldier to Bennington in the summer of 1776, will recount the lives of Patriots of Color. Both Brister Freeman and Caesar Robbins gained their freedom at the time of the Revolutionary war and began lives as free men in Concord. See the ditch fence Brister Freeman dug around his property almost 200 years ago.

Register at education@walden.org.