Boston 1775

On 13 Jan 1777, the Massachusetts legislature considered a petition from eight black men on behalf of “a great number of Negroes who are d...

Harvard’s Houghton Library is showing off a recent acquisition , which came through the university’s W.E.B. DuBois Institute. It’s a 1799 Fr...

I plan to pay my first visit to the New-York Historical Society today, so it seems appropriate to post about a document there which reveals...