• The pulpit, floor, and pews in the African Meeting House, the center of the free African American community in antebellum Boston and birthplace of the Abolition Movement.

    Boston African American

    National Historic Site Massachusetts

Places

Black Heritage Trail Map

Learn about the sites along the Black Heritage Trail® (click here for a larger version of the map):

Robert Gould Shaw and 54th Regiment Memorial

George Middleton House

Phillips School

John J.Smith House

Charles Street Meeting House

Lewis and Harriet Hayden House

John Coburn House

Smith Court Residences

Abiel Smith School

African Meeting House


Related Sites on Beacon Hill


David Walker and Maria Stewart House

African American churches of Beacon Hill

George and Susan Hillard House


 

Did You Know?

Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman and the Boston African American NHS logo

In 1783, Massachusetts became the first state in the country to officially abolish slavery, after two slaves, Elizabeth “Mumbet” Freeman and Qwok Walker, successfully sued in separate cases for their freedom.