Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
Boston Women's Heritage Trail
Author: Boston Women's Heritage Trail
Author: Polly Welts KaufmanPublisher: Applewood Books
ISBN: 1933212403
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
"Women have played active, prominent roles in Boston history since the days of Anne Hutchinson - the colonial freethinker who bravely challenged the authority of ruling Puritan ministers in 1638. Hutchinson's action is only one of more than 200 stories of Boston women told in the newly expanded guidebook from the Boston Women's Heritage Trail. Several maps indicate the sites where these historic women walked, worked, and lived, while photographs and other illustrations help bring these women to life once again. The updated guidebook will take you on seven walks through seven distinctly different Boston neighborhoods. Hutchinson's story is told by her statue on the grounds of the Massachusetts State House, while Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy's is found at the site of her birthplace in the North End. An underground railway stop on Beacon Hill reveals the dramatic escape of enslaved Ellen and William Craft to Boston. Other trails lead walkers to new statues of Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman in the South End and of Abigail Adams, Lucy Stone and Phillis Wheatley - three women who used the pen for change - portrayed in bronze in the recently dedicated Boston Women's Memorial on Commonwealth Avenue. The Boston Women's Heritage Trail guidebook is a must for visitors, students, and residents of Boston alike. Its lively descriptions show the significant role Boston women played in shaping the history and the future of both Boston and the nation."
Boston Women's Heritage Trail
Author: The Complete Guide to Boston's Freedom Trail
Author: Charles BahnePublisher:
ISBN: 9780961570538
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Boston Women's Heritage Trail
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9781892839039
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Woman Movement in America
Author: Belle SquireHarriet Wilson's New England
Author: JerriAnne BoggisPublisher: University Press of New England
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
This volume, with a foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr., advances efforts to correct the historical record about the racial complexity and richness characteristic of rural New England s past"
The Promised Land
Author: Mary AntinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Immigrants
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Antin emigrated from Polotzk (Polotsk), Belarus [Russia], to Boston, Massachusetts, at age 13. She tells of Jewish life in Russia and in the United States.
A Studio of Her Own
Author: Erica E. HirshlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
By Erica E. Hirshler.
Richard Potter
Author: John A. HodgsonPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 0813941059
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
Apart from a handful of exotic--and almost completely unreliable--tales surrounding his life, Richard Potter is almost unknown today. Two hundred years ago, however, he was the most popular entertainer in America--the first showman, in fact, to win truly nationwide fame. Working as a magician and ventriloquist, he personified for an entire generation what a popular performer was and made an invaluable contribution to establishing popular entertainment as a major part of American life. His story is all the more remarkable in that Richard Potter was also a black man. This was an era when few African Americans became highly successful, much less famous. As the son of a slave, Potter was fortunate to have opportunities at all. At home in Boston, he was widely recognized as black, but elsewhere in America audiences entertained themselves with romantic speculations about his "Hindu" ancestry (a perception encouraged by his act and costumes). Richard Potter’s performances were enjoyed by an enormous public, but his life off stage has always remained hidden and unknown. Now, for the first time, John A. Hodgson tells the remarkable, compelling--and ultimately heartbreaking--story of Potter’s life, a tale of professional success and celebrity counterbalanced by racial vulnerability in an increasingly hostile world. It is a story of race relations, too, and of remarkable, highly influential black gentlemanliness and respectability: as the unsung precursor of Frederick Douglass, Richard Potter demonstrated to an entire generation of Americans that a black man, no less than a white man, could exemplify the best qualities of humanity. The apparently trivial "popular entertainment" status of his work has long blinded historians to his significance and even to his presence. Now at last we can recognize him as a seminal figure in American history.