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Boston African American National Historic Site
Boston, MA
Located on Beacon Hill, this NPS site preserves 15 pre-Civil War structures associated with Boston's free Black community, including the African Meeting House — the oldest standing Black church in the United States. The site is connected by the 1.6-mile Black Heritage Trail and documents the abolitionist movement and resistance to slavery.
Counter-Narrative
The myth this site refutes: that enslaved and oppressed people accepted their condition. Every stone here is evidence of refusal.
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National Park Service
Before & After This Era
← Before · Slavery
→ After · Reconstruction
Sites in Conversation
"Both connected to Frederick Douglass"
"Both connected to Frederick Douglass"
"Both part of: Abolitionist Movement"