African American History Tour
This tour is not offered this season.
From the arrival of the first African American slaves in Boston this tour will focus on the history of slavery, segregation, and racism in Boston.
Though Boston was initially conflicted over the issue of slavery given the need for cotton by the New England textile industry, abolitionist leaders such as William Lloyd Garrison, Lewis Hayden, and Charles Sumner emerged in Boston.
Against harsh resistance, William Lloyd Garrison
published The Liberator for the
35 years leading up to the Thirteenth Amendment advocating for
the immediate and complete emancipation of all slaves
in the United States.
See the African American Meeting House, the oldest remaining black church building in the country, the Lewis and Harriett boarding house that served as a stop on the Underground Railroad, and learn how the effort of five-year old Sarah Roberts led to outlawing segregation in Massachusetts public schools.
