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African-Americans in Antebellum
Boston
Many of our trips to research institutions
involved digitizing documents that were deemed useful to our
topic. One particularly useful repository was the Massachusetts
State House Library's Special Collections. It was here that
we found the legislature reports from 1822 to 1851 (see link
to the right). These reports discussed issues ranging from slavery
(and its history), miscegenation laws, petitions from abolitionists,
and railroad accomodations for "colored" citizens.
The Massachusetts Historical Society was extremely
helpful in providing the records of various voluntary associations,
some of which are now available on this website (see link to
the right). These records provided a close-up look at the proceedings
of groups such as the Boston Vigilance Committee and various
literary societies.
We also digitized selected articles from The
Emancipator and Free American, another abolitionist newspaper
from this time period. Secondary sources in the form of articles
from The New England Quarterly are also linked from the
selected bibliography (see link to right).
These documents, along with the digitized articles
from The Liberator our sources of demographic data offer
a unique view of the lives of African-Americans living in antebellum
Boston, and proved to be useful to student research.
 Student
Research
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