• 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

Visit the Museum of African American History

The Museum of African American History's Abiel Smith School and African Meeting House are
open to the public year round, six days a week, Monday-Saturday: 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
National Park Rangers are available there throughout the day for historic talks.

To learn more about the Museum of African American History, please visit here.


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.