Saturday, May 24, 2025 Doors Open: 5:20 PMTown Hall Begins: 5:30 PMTown Hall Concludes: 6:00 PMLocation: Old South Meeting HouseAdmission: Free REGISTER HERE In May 1854, a young man named Anthony Burns was arrested under the Fugitive Slave Law, and the city—long a stronghold of abolitionist sentiment—erupted in protest. Thousands gathered to raise their voices, challenge the law, and debate … Continue reading Revolutionary Spaces Event | Rocking the Cradle Town Meeting on 5/24/25
ABB Atlantic World Connections Event | Dr. Seth Rockman on Plantation Goods: A Material History of American Slavery 10/23
The industrializing North and the agricultural South—that’s how we have been taught to think about the United States in the early 19th century. But in doing so, we miss slavery’s long reach into small New England communities, just as we fail to see the role of Northern manufacturing in shaping the terrain of human bondage in the South. Join us Wednesday for an introduction to Dr. Rockman's forthcoming book.
Partnership of Historic Bostons Event | A Nation in Balance: Sovereignty, Earth and the Meaning of Right Relation
Aquinnah Wampanoag citizen, educator and author Linda Coombs on how Native people saw sovereignty as the right relationship to the earth.
Radcliffe Event | Black Lead: The Radical Black Roots of New England Liberalism on 10/16/24
Kerri K. Greenidge’s new book complicates the idea—propagated by white nationalists and accepted as fact by most liberal-leaning historians, scholars, and commentators—that New England is a predominantly white space in which African descended people and their communities have had little political effect.
Event | Slave Dwelling Project hosts 8th National Conference October 3-5 in Philadelphia, PA October 3-5
The 8th national Slave Dwelling Project Conference will take place October 3-5 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in collaboration with University of Pennsylvania’s McNeil Center for Early American Studies.
Upstander event | How NOT to Make Films: 15 years of failures, mishaps and lessons learned on 6/13
In 2024, as Upstander Project celebrates its 15th year, the crew is attempting to walk the walk by getting vulnerable and honest about their own shortcomings and missteps along the way. The hope is that by practicing the transparency and openness they so frequently teach about, they can continue on their lifelong journey as aspiring upstanders and allies.
Partnership of Historic Bostons Event | Unseen New England: Re-envisioning Black Presence in Early American Art on 5/15/24
American Folk Art Museum curator Emelie Gevalt explores the way that early New England art portrayed - or erased - its Black community.
ABB event this Wednesday | New England Burning: Arson as Resistance to Slaveryin Colonial New England, 1650 – 1775 with Kerima Lewis on 5/1/24
Hosted by Atlantic Black Box Wednesday, May 1, 2024 at 6:00 pmONLINE Register here On Wednesday, May 1 our Atlantic World Connections online speaker series continues with a presentation by Dr. Kerima Lewis on arson as a tool of resistance among the enslaved population of colonial New England. In colonial New England, enslaved men and women of African heritage worked … Continue reading ABB event this Wednesday | New England Burning: Arson as Resistance to Slaveryin Colonial New England, 1650 – 1775 with Kerima Lewis on 5/1/24
ABB Speaker Series Event | Nantucket: Place of Enslavement and Refuge from Slavery on 3/27/24
Hosted by Atlantic Black Box Atlantic World Connections Online Speaker Series Wednesday, March 27, 2024 from 6:00 - 7:00 pm Register here ABB's Atlantic World Connections speaker series continues with a conversation between researchers Frances Karttunen and Barbara Ann White on Nantucket as a place of both enslavement and refuge from slavery. Local researchers Frances Karttunen and Barbara … Continue reading ABB Speaker Series Event | Nantucket: Place of Enslavement and Refuge from Slavery on 3/27/24
ABB Event Today | From the Margins: Massachusetts in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1644-1865 at 4pm
Hosted by Atlantic Black Box Atlantic World Connections Speaker Series Featuring Dr. Sean M. KelleyProfessor in the Department of History, University of Essex Wednesday, February 28, 2024 at 4:00 pm ET on zoom Register here A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the New World aboard American vessels over a span of two hundred … Continue reading ABB Event Today | From the Margins: Massachusetts in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1644-1865 at 4pm
ABB Speaker Series Launch with Dr. Sean Kelley on Massachusetts in the Slave Trade on 2/28 at 4pm
Hosted by Atlantic Black Box Atlantic World Connections Speaker Series FROM THE MARGINS Massachusetts in the Transatlantic Slave Trade, 1644-1865 Presented by Dr. Sean M. KelleyProfessor in the Department of History, University of Essex Wednesday, February 28, 2024 at 4:00 pm ET on zoom Register here A total of 305,000 enslaved Africans arrived in the … Continue reading ABB Speaker Series Launch with Dr. Sean Kelley on Massachusetts in the Slave Trade on 2/28 at 4pm
Boston University Symposium | Archives and Knowledge Keepers: Native American and Indigenous Studies and the Art of History
This Emerging Scholars Program is organized by the American & New England Studies Program and is sponsored by Boston University Diversity & Inclusion and the College of Arts & Sciences A One-Day Symposium at Boston UniversityMay 4, 2023 / 10am-5pmMetcalf Trustee Center Ballroom | One Silber Way, Rm 922 or Live Stream via Zoom Register … Continue reading Boston University Symposium | Archives and Knowledge Keepers: Native American and Indigenous Studies and the Art of History
Event | Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England on 9/14
A Zoom Presentation by Dr. Jean M. O'Brien Hosted by Historic Northampton and Sponsored by On Native Land: Leverett Advocacy & Education Group Wednesday, September 14, 2022 at 7 pm Register here Professor Jean O’Brien (White Earth Ojibwe) will discuss how local historians in New England, writing between 1820 and 1880, promoted the myth of … Continue reading Event | Firsting and Lasting: Writing Indians Out of Existence in New England on 9/14
Event | Advocates of Freedom: African American Abolitionists in the British Isles on 11/18 @ 5
Hosted by Historic New England Thursday, November 18, 5:00 p.m. EST Register here This virtual talk by Dr. Hannah-Rose Murray examines how Black abolitionists—many of whom were based in Boston and the New England area—traveled to the British Isles during the nineteenth century to inform audiences about U.S. chattel slavery. These freedom fighters (including Frederick Douglass, … Continue reading Event | Advocates of Freedom: African American Abolitionists in the British Isles on 11/18 @ 5
ABB Event | In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in the Antebellum North with Dr. Kabria Baumgartner on 6/24
Hosted by Atlantic Black Box and Indigo Arts Alliance Thursday, June 24th at 5:00 pm Register here Join us for ReMapping New England, an ongoing collaboration between Atlantic Black Box and Indigo Arts Alliance that aims to re-member our communities in all their diversity and radically shift public consciousness toward truth. Uncovering the hidden role … Continue reading ABB Event | In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in the Antebellum North with Dr. Kabria Baumgartner on 6/24
ABB Event | In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in the Antebellum North with Dr. Kabria Baumgartner on 6/24
Hosted by Atlantic Black Box and Indigo Arts Alliance Thursday, June 24th at 5:00 pm Register here Join us for ReMapping New England, an ongoing collaboration between Atlantic Black Box and Indigo Arts Alliance that aims to re-member our communities in all their diversity and radically shift public consciousness toward truth. Uncovering the hidden role … Continue reading ABB Event | In Pursuit of Knowledge: Black Women and Educational Activism in the Antebellum North with Dr. Kabria Baumgartner on 6/24
Call For Papers: “Blackness in New England from Crispus Attucks to Ayanna Pressley”
A special issue of The New England Quarterly Guest editors: Kerri Greenidge (Tufts University) and Holly Jackson (UMass Boston) In Dusk of Dawn (1940), W.E.B. Du Bois referred to his New England boyhood in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, as being "shut in by its mountains and provincialism." Similarly, the Jamaican-born poet Claude McKay used "Spring in New Hampshire" (1922) … Continue reading Call For Papers: “Blackness in New England from Crispus Attucks to Ayanna Pressley”
Freeing Eral Lonnon: a Mashpee Indian Presumed a Fugitive Slave in Louisiana, and the Role of Native People in the History of Judicial Abolition in Massachusetts
A summary essay about the 1839 report on the deliverance of Massachusetts citizens liable to be sold as slaves in slave states and a 1936 reference book on historical Massachusetts judicial cases involving people of color By Edward L. Bell scholarly researcher and writer in New England history Abstract: The 1839 Massachusetts legislative Report on … Continue reading Freeing Eral Lonnon: a Mashpee Indian Presumed a Fugitive Slave in Louisiana, and the Role of Native People in the History of Judicial Abolition in Massachusetts