In February, the history of the fight for the freedom of African Americans with the United States is celebrated in February. Black History.
If you are in Boston, which was the heart of the battles for freedom, do not miss the opportunity to visit places related to the conquest of civil rights that make up the Black Heritage Trail. You will discover that Boston and Massachusetts were the avant-garde of the abolitionist movement in America: in 1790 the state could boast of not having only one black slave.
In 1783 the Supreme Court of Justice declared illegal and unconstitutional slavery. In 1831, the white abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison launched his revolutionary newspaper The Liberator promoting anti-slavery alliances and the protection of fugitive slaves through the Underground Railroad.
Our itinerary starts from the Boston African American National Historic Site (National Historic Park) in the Beacon Hill district that hosted the Afro American community in Boston in the 19th century. More than 2,000 blacks lived in the neighborhood classically populated by white families. Men and women allied to Bostonian whites, became leaders of the abolitionist movement, the Underground Railroad, the Civil War and the first battles for civil rights and education.
The Black Heritage Trail It unfolds between houses, business exercises, schools and churches to witness the organization of a free community committed against racial discrimination and slavery still in place in the nation.
The African American Meeting House Tour ‐ Historic Landmark in Boston recently restored to its originality as in 1855 – is driven by the rangers of the National Park service and touches places Frederick Douglas, William Lloyd Garrison, Maria Stewart and all activists and leaders who helped to end slavery in America.
The bronze monument of Augustus Saint Gaudens at the 54th Regiment at the Boston Common, erected in 1897 ‐During the Civil War, the black Bostonians formed the 54th Massachusetts Regiment led by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw; the first and only military unit of infantry completely composed of black volunteers from the north, fought to preserve the country and destroy slavery.
"Glory – Men of Glory", a 1989 historical film by Edward Zwick staged with meticulous attention to detail, a "Canti dei Cantici" and tells the emancipation of blacks, their heroism. By the end of the War in 1865 and slavery thanks to the 13th Amendment, the liberated southern blacks repaired north, so much so that the black population of Boston in 1900 reached 12,000 inhabitants, establishing themselves in the districts of the South End and Roxbury, which in 1930 became the Bostonian black soul with 21,000 African Americans.
The Freedom Trail dedicates a guided tour of vintage costumes, for a 90-minute discovery to Boston’s Afro American patriots, revolutionaries such as Crispus Attucks, Phillis Wheatley, Peter Salem, Prince Hall.
The Roxbury Black History Trolley Tour is another opportunity to explore three centuries of black neighborhood history.
