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Reading Frederick Douglass

The Robbins House

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.

Reading Frederick Douglass

The Robbins House

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.

Thoreau Annual Gathering Presentation

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

Thoreau Annual Gathering Presentation

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

Concord Museum On Cambridge Turnpike at Lexington Road, Concord, United States

“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

Concord Museum On Cambridge Turnpike at Lexington Road, Concord, United States

“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…

Thomas Dugan: Yeoman of Concord

Concord Museum On Cambridge Turnpike at Lexington Road, Concord, United States

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…

Thomas Dugan: Yeoman of Concord

Concord Museum On Cambridge Turnpike at Lexington Road, Concord, United States

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 Middle Passage: Commemorating Slavery in Boston

Faneuil Hall

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…

The Middle Passage: Commemorating Slavery in Boston

Faneuil Hall

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…

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