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A discourse delivered before the African Society, at their meeting-house, in Boston, Mass. on the abolition of the slave trade by the government of the United States of America, July 14, 1819. Boston: Nathaniel Coverly, 1819. George A. Levesque. "Inherent Reformers-Inherited Orthodoxy: Black Baptists in Boston, 1800-1873".
The meeting house hosted a school, community groups, musical performances, and antislavery meetings. . 1808 Hall house school moved to African Meeting House 1826 Massachusetts General Colored Association, a black abolitionist group, founded in African Meeting House.
The Charles Street Meeting House is an early-nineteenth-century historic church in Beacon Hill at 70 Charles Street, Boston, Massachusetts. The church has been used over its history by several Christian denominations, including Baptists, the First African Methodist Episcopal Church, and Unitarian Universalist. In the 1980s, it was renovated and ...
This is a list of National Historic Landmarks in Boston, Massachusetts. ... African Meeting House: African Meeting House. May 30, 1974 : 8 Smith Ct Beacon Hill ...
In 1805, he became the first pastor for the First African Baptist Church, currently known as the African Meeting House in Boston, Massachusetts. [2] [3] He later helped found the Abyssinian Baptist Church in New York City. An abolitionist, he was a leader in the black community and was an active missionary in Haiti. [4]
Abiel Smith School, founded in 1835, is a school located at 46 Joy Street in Boston, Massachusetts, United States, adjacent to the African Meeting House.It is named for Abiel Smith, a white philanthropist who left money (an estimated $4,000) in his will to the city of Boston for the education of black children.
In 1972, the Museum of African American History purchased the African Meeting House, in Boston's Beacon Hill. [ 42 ] From 1974 to 1980, the Combahee River Collective , a political organizing group largely composed of Black lesbian socialists, met in Boston and nearby suburbs. [ 43 ]
The house is a Boston African American historical site located on the Black Heritage Trail in Beacon Hill. [1] [3] [4] [5]The National Park Service wrote: The historic buildings along today's Black Heritage Trail were the homes, businesses, schools and churches of a thriving black community that organized, from the nation's earliest years, to sustain those who faced local discrimination and ...