Like most cities across the United States, Boston has been coming to terms with the roles its ancestor residents played in the enslavement and trafficking of Black African and Indigenous peoples in the Northeast and the greater Atlantic world. Sites along the Freedom Trail have been incorporating stories about Black and Indigenous Bostonians, free and unfree, into their
The exhibit, “Sparking Revolutions: Lanterns, Leadership, and the Evolving Legacy of Old North Church,” tells the story of the Anglican church and historical figures beyond Paul Revere, who made the church famous.