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Boston's 19th Century African American Communities
January 25, 2003
James Oliver Horton professor, American studies, GWU
Lois E. Horton professor, sociology, George Mason

As part of a graduate course presented by the Museum of Afro-American History in collaboration with Nantucket Public Schools and UMass Boston Graduate College of Education, James and Lois Horton, authors of Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North, discuss how, in post-Civil War Boston, African Americans formed a highly-organized community at the center of the antislavery movement. They describe how fugitive slaves and businessmen, washerwomen and barbers, churchgoers and abolitionists lived, worked, and organized for mutual aid, survival, and social action

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