Sunday, June 21st Add to your enjoyment of the Summer Solstice by exploring the environs of the Old Manse & Robbins House: 4 – 6 pm, Garden talks: Join the Trustees of Reservations and Gaining Ground in the garden at the Old Manse to learn about this re-creation of the garden first planted in 1842…
Frederick Douglass’s fiery 1852 speech “The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro” Guy Peartree, re-enactor, leads a community reading of Frederick Douglass’s speech at the The Robbins House. Questions and discussion about Douglass’s speech followed. Sponsored by MassHumanities.
Frederick Douglass’s fiery 1852 speech “The Meaning of the Fourth of July for the Negro” Guy Peartree, re-enactor, leads a community reading of Frederick Douglass’s speech at the The Robbins House. Questions and discussion about Douglass’s speech followed. Sponsored by MassHumanities.
Friday July 10, 9-10:30 am Thoreau’s Sense of Place Speaker: Kendra Taira Field, Tufts Assist Prof of History & Africana Studies: 19th-c US, African American, Native American
Friday July 10, 9-10:30 am Thoreau’s Sense of Place Speaker: Kendra Taira Field, Tufts Assist Prof of History & Africana Studies: 19th-c US, African American, Native American
“She Ought to be Set at Liberty”: Slavery and Freedom in 18th-Century Massachusetts Massachusetts is often associated with abolition and other progressive movements, while the early history of slavery in Massachusetts is sometimes overlooked. Presented in association with the Concord Museum’s special exhibition Thomas Dugan, Yeoman of Concord, John Hannigan, Ph.D. candidate in History at Brandeis…
“She Ought to be Set at Liberty”: Slavery and Freedom in 18th-Century Massachusetts Massachusetts is often associated with abolition and other progressive movements, while the early history of slavery in Massachusetts is sometimes overlooked. Presented in association with the Concord Museum’s special exhibition Thomas Dugan, Yeoman of Concord, John Hannigan, Ph.D. candidate in History at Brandeis…
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…
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…
The National Parks of Boston and the Boston Middle Passage Port Ceremony Committee will host an intergenerational, interfaith ceremony at Faneuil Hall recognizing Boston as a Middle Passage port site. “Slavery is the paradox of Boston’s revolutionary history,” said National Parks of Boston General Superintendent Michael Creasey. “The first slave trading voyage left from Massachusetts…
