• 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

Event Details

  • 01/31/2013

    Location: African Meeting House | Map Time: 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM Fee Information: FREE Contact Name: Boston African American NHS Contact Email: e-mail us Contact Phone Number: 617 742-5415
Join us for the first event in the Freedom Rising Lowell Lecture Series launching the Museum's yearlong
commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation and of the Massachusetts
54th Regiment, the first black soldiers from the north to serve in the Civil War.  Through a new exhibit,
lectures, concerts, Teacher Summer Institutes, and children's events, Freedom Rising in 2013 celebrates
the roles of Boston's black and white abolitionists in monumental historic events.

Dr. Stauffer writes and lectures on the Civil War era, antislavery and social protest movements, and visual
culture.  His books include the newly released The Tribunal:  Responses to John Brown and the Harpers
Ferry Raid*
and the critically acclaimed Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham
Lincoln*
.  Time Magazine, the Harvard Review and others have published his more than 45 essays, and
he has appeared on numerous national radio and television programs.

*Dr. Stauffer's books will be available soon for advance purchase at maah.org
 
FREE and open to the public
Reception and book signing to follow

Space is limited ~ rsvp@maah.org
 
For more information
maah.org  or nps.gov/boaf
617.725.0022, extension 222