Haymarket/Long Wharf/Revere Square, Copp’s Hill Cemetery)
(2hrs) 400 years of Black Boston History as you have never seen it. We connect today’s Boston to colonial Boston and earlier. We start out at Haymarket/Faneuil hall and discuss African women in the 1600s who lived there and owned property there. Then we walk to Long Wharf and ‘unflatten’ Boston's connection to the birth of the Atlantic world. Then on to Revere House/Revere Square & Mall to discuss architecture, newspaper/media, and accounts of African life in Africa and in urban Boston sidelighted with southern, island and global enslavement survivals. Lastly, we loop back to Copp's Hill Cemetery (the 1st Black community formation in Boston, with at least 1,000 Black folks interred among the 10,000 there). We lift up the beginning of incredible activism and involvement in the American revolution-and the birth of the Commonwealth. We walk down Copps Hill back to Haymarket (minimal incline/decline over the last 20 minutes). This is our general tour; it sets the stage for a clear understanding of the Black community’s original formation in the North End leading to displacement to the West End (Beacon Hill), the Civil War, and the 'Great Migration'.
All tours start at 11:00am and depart from the Haymarket MBTA stop at the RMV doors (heart of downtown Boston: 136 Blackstone Street: https://bit.ly/3ZqvcvU).
Date Options:
August 26 (Wed)
August 28 (Fri)?
September 13 (Sun)
September 20 (Sun)
October 2 (Fri)?
Haymarket/Long Wharf/Revere Square, Copp’s Hill Cemetery)
(2hrs) 400 years of Black Boston History as you have never seen it. We connect today’s Boston to colonial Boston and earlier. We start out at Haymarket/Faneuil hall and discuss African women in the 1600s who lived there and owned property there. Then we walk to Long Wharf and ‘unflatten’ Boston's connection to the birth of the Atlantic world. Then on to Revere House/Revere Square & Mall to discuss architecture, newspaper/media, and accounts of African life in Africa and in urban Boston sidelighted with southern, island and global enslavement survivals. Lastly, we loop back to Copp's Hill Cemetery (the 1st Black community formation in Boston, with at least 1,000 Black folks interred among the 10,000 there). We lift up the beginning of incredible activism and involvement in the American revolution-and the birth of the Commonwealth. We walk down Copps Hill back to Haymarket (minimal incline/decline over the last 20 minutes). This is our general tour; it sets the stage for a clear understanding of the Black community’s original formation in the North End leading to displacement to the West End (Beacon Hill), the Civil War, and the 'Great Migration'.
All tours start at 11:00am and depart from the Haymarket MBTA stop at the RMV doors (heart of downtown Boston: 136 Blackstone Street: https://bit.ly/3ZqvcvU).
Date Options:
August 26 (Wed)
August 28 (Fri)?
September 13 (Sun)
September 20 (Sun)
October 2 (Fri)?
