• The pulpit, floor, and pews in the African Meeting House. The Meeting House was a baptist church and central part of the struggle for freedom and justice from not only slavery, but for civil rights, prior to the American Civil War.

    Boston African American

    National Historic Site Massachusetts

Management

Boston African American National Historic Site works in partnership with the Museum of African
American History, the City of Boston, and private property owners to promote, preserve, and
interpret the history of Boston's free African American community on Beacon Hill in the 1800s.
It includes the homes, businesses, schools, and churches of a community that struggled
against the forces of slavery and injustice.

Did You Know?

George Middleton House, Beacon Hill, Boston

By 1800 some 1,100 Black Bostonians made up one of the largest free African-American communities in North America.