Important Figures Digital Exhibits

This collection of exhibits features figures Black figures who shaped Boston's history, and thusly, its present. Included are exhibits about “Philis Wheatley Peters,” “Crispus Attucks,” “Pauline Hopkins,”  “Chloe Russel,” “Maria Stewart,” “Robert Morris,” “Chloe Spear,” and “David Walker.” Our collections attempt to show the multidimensionality of Black individuals and the heterogeneous ways that these individuals influenced the culture, history, resistance, and being of Black Boston. This list is by no means exhaustive, but rather a starting point, which we will continue to add to. 

1723 - 1770
Framingham, MA
Sailor

1818 - 1895
New Bedford, MA
Abolitionist

1744 - 1829
Sheffield, MA
Domestic Worker

1735 - 1807
Boston, MA
Abolitionist

1859-1930
Portland, ME
Writer

1743 - 1822
Dracut, MA
Musician

1735- 1815
Boston, MA
Soilder

1823 - 1882
Salem, MA
Lawyer

19th Century
Boston, MA
Entrepreneur

1750 - 1816
Framingham, MA
Soldier

1779 - 1831
Boston, MA
Seaman

1767- 1815
Boston, MA
Entrepreneur

1803 - 1879
Washington D.C.
Abolitionist

1712 - 1793/1799
Near Volta River in Ghana
Domestic Worker

1796/1797- 1830
Boston, MA
Abolitionist

1753-1784
Gambia, Africa
Poet