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The Museum of African American History was founded to preserve and interpret the contributions of people of African descent and those who have found common cause with them in the struggle for liberty and justice for all Americans. Through permanent and rotating exhibits, a wide range of public and education programs ranging from debates to concerts, and summer youth camps to Underground Railroad Overnight Adventures, it places the African American experience in an accurate social, cultural and historical perspective. Incorporated in 1967, the Museum is nationally and internationally known for The African Meeting House, a National Historic Landmark, and Abiel Smith School on Boston's Beacon Hill, The African Meeting House on Nantucket, and Black Heritage Trails® in Boston and Nantucket.

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Slavery and the Law in New England

Thu, Apr 22, 2004

A panel discusses the recent compilation of data related to the slave trade in New England that makes this an auspicious time to examine the region's role in the trade. New England's pride in its abolitionist heritage has long obscured the presence of slavery in the region for over 200 years from its first founding to the institution's ultimate demise through schemes of gradual emancipation.

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Memory of the Slave Trade in New England

Fri, Apr 23, 2004

A panel discusses the way New England's pride in its abolitionist heritage has obscured the presence of slavery in the region for over 200 years, from its first founding to the institution's ultimate demise through schemes of gradual emancipation. Though New England's role in the conduct of the slave trade is perhaps better known, the recent compilation of data related to that trade makes this an auspicious time to examine new research in this area.

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Free People of Color in New England

Thu, Apr 22, 2004

A panel discusses New England's role in the conduct of the slave trade and the recent compilation of data related to that trade that makes this an auspicious time to examine new research in this area. New England's pride in its abolitionist heritage has long obscured the presence of slavery in the region for over 200 years from its first founding to the institution's ultimate demise through schemes of gradual emancipation.

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Boston's 19th Century African American Communities

Sat, Jan 25, 2003

As part of a graduate course presented by the Museum of Afro-American History in collaboration with Nantucket Public Schools and UMass Boston Graduate College of Education, James and Lois Horton, authors of Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North, discuss how, in post-Civil War Boston, African Americans formed a highly-organized community at the center of the antislavery movement. They describe how fugitive slaves and businessmen, washerwomen and barbers, churchgoers and abolitionists lived, worked, and organized for mutual aid, survival, and social action

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Heritage Guild: Honoring David Walker and Maria Stewart

Sun, Sep 18, 2005

This reception celebrates the plaques that were placed honoring David Walker and Maria Stewart, who both lived at 81 Joy Street (formerly 8 Belknap Street.) in Boston. Maria W. Stewart (1803-1879) was a controversial black abolitionist, essayist, lecturer and religious activist who lived on Beacon Hill. Her speeches, published by William Lloyd Garrison, were the first publicly-delivered speeches by an American woman on politics and women's rights. David Walker (1785-1830), in 1829, published "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World" decrying American slavery, racial hatred, and summoning his fellow African Americans to resist. A bounty was placed on him by slave owners.

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Impact of the Black Press on Social Movements

Wed, Nov 16, 2005

Producer Callie Crossley leads a panel of black journalists in a discussion on the power of the black press in social movements. Since the establishment of the first black newspaper in 1827, African-American journalists have had a dynamic effect on the economic, social and political evolution of the African-American community, fearlessly covering the major stories and movements facing African-Americans.

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Complicity: How The North Profited From Slavery

Thu, Jan 12, 2006

Conventional wisdom is challenged as Anne Farrow, Joel Lang, and Jenifer Frank, the authors of *Complicity: How The North Promoted, Prolonged, And Profited From Slavery*, discuss their findings in a public talk. A century and a half after the end of the Civil War, most Americans still think of slavery as a purely Southern institution. The enduring image of American bondage is that of lines of black men and women picking cotton on a plantation in a Southern state. In fact, the North was equally responsible for American slavery, as shown by the authors of Complicity. Before the Civil War, Northern industries such as textiles and shipbuilding flourished as a result of the free labor of millions of black people. The only difference was that Northerners could profit from slavery at a distance and were in a better position to deny their complicity. The Boston Public Library and the Museum of Afro-American History are offering the Words of Thunder Lowell Lecture Series to honor the bicentennial of the birth of William Lloyd Garrison, Boston abolitionist and editor of The Liberator. The lecture series is designed to continue Garrison's efforts to expand the public's knowledge of slavery and of collaborative efforts of abolitionists.

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William Lloyd Garrison: Words of Thunder

Sat, Aug 6, 2005

This bicentennial celebration, co-presented by the Museum of Afro-American History and the Boston Public Library, includes The Massachusetts 54th Regiment and musical performances by Vivian Cooley-Collier, Guy Peartree, and the Studio Singers of the Eliot Congregational Church of Roxbury. The "Words of Thunder" exhibitions at the Museum of Afro-American History celebrate the life, achievements, and challenges of famed Boston abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison (1805-1879) during the bicentennial of his birth. From 1831 through the Civil War, Boston was the center of the radical abolition movement in the United States. View original prints of *The Liberator*. Although William Lloyd Garrison was the pioneer of radical abolition, he was aided by men and women, white and black. These ambassadors of abolition sparked, supported, and sustained the anti-slavery movement.

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African American Slave Trade in New England

Thu, Apr 22, 2004

Experts present papers that discuss the history of the African American slave trade in New England. New England's pride in its abolitionist heritage has long obscured the presence of slavery in the region for over two hundred years from its first founding to the institution's ultimate demise through schemes of gradual emancipation. Though New England's role in the conduct of the slave trade is perhaps better known, the recent compilation of data related to that trade makes this an auspicious time to examine new research in this area. This Conference was sponsored by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, in association with The Museum of Afro-American History; The National Park Service; The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture; Suffolk University; and The W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research.a

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Native American Slave Trade in New England

Thu, Apr 22, 2004

Panelists from around the country converge to discuss how the history of the Native American slave trade taints New England's past. New England's pride in its abolitionist heritage has long obscured the presence of slavery in the region for over two hundred years from its first founding to the institution's ultimate demise through schemes of gradual emancipation. Though New England's role in the conduct of the slave trade is perhaps better known, the recent compilation of data related to that trade makes this an auspicious time to examine new research in this area. This Conference was sponsored by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, in association with The Museum of Afro-American History; The National Park Service; The Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture; Suffolk University; and The W. E. B. Du Bois Institute for Afro-American Research.

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