Absented Presence: “They All Died Off” and Other Myths About Native Americans

The BHTNH is pleased to host a guided walking tour in Milford, NH, on Good Friday as a part of the collaborative Lenten Program between the Episcopal Church and the Trail. The tour will offer participants an opportunity to contemplate the Passion of Christ and to reflect on the legacy of enslavement and racial injustice through a series of "prayers of remembrance and reconciliation" at sites on the Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail. 3 pm meet at the Milford Oval, Milford,…

The Community is invited to join us for the blessing of our new office at 222 Court Street and learn more about the history of the building.

Meet Graphic Novel Artist, Joel Christian Gill, who will discuss his exhibit on display at our new location.

Emancipation & the 13th Amendment: The Legacy of Enslavement Saturday, May 4, 2019, 9am - 4pm Read More and Register Online

Sankofa Scholar & Tour Guide: Nur Shoop Colonial Portsmouth newspapers testify to the local slave trade, runaways, abolitionists and anti-abolitionist activities, followed by conflicting opinions of the Civil War. In the 20th century, the legacy of that early history was reflected in news about de facto segregation in housing and public places. This tour includes many of those historic landmarks from the early nineteenth through the twentieth centuries.

Sankofa Scholars & Tour Guide: Kevin Wade Mitchell & Jennifer Belmont-Earl As focus shifts from the front of the house to the backyards and root cellars of New Hampshire’s historic house museums, we consider the material culture experienced by household servants, including those whose unpaid labor and valuable black bodies helped create white family wealth. Register Online

The African Burying Ground Memorial is one of at least six locations in the city where Black Americans and Africans have been laid to rest. This 90-minute narrated trolley tour goes from farmlands to waterways and touches four centuries of human history. Hear the stories and remember. Register Online Arrive by 1:45pm to park at the Christ Episcopal Church, 1035 Lafayette Rd., Portsmouth NH.

Sankofa Scholar & Tour Guide: Angela Matthews Institutionalized slavery in Colonial America provided immense wealth and material culture to many European immigrants and their descendants in the Americas, as Portsmouth’s house museums bear witness. This tour brings into focus an economic system dependent upon the international slave trade with its constant supply of kidnapped unpaid African workers and their descendants, who, against the odds, created one of this country’s oldest Black communities. Register Online

Sankofa Scholar & Tour Guide: Nur Shoop Colonial Portsmouth newspapers testify to the local slave trade, runaways, abolitionists and anti-abolitionist activities, followed by conflicting opinions of the Civil War. In the 20th century, the legacy of that early history was reflected in news about de facto segregation in housing and public places. This tour includes many of those historic landmarks from the early nineteenth through the twentieth centuries. Register Online

Sankofa Scholar & Tour Guide: Tammi Truax During the Spring of 1796, George Washington’s final months in office, Ona Judge, an enslaved woman owned by the First Family, escaped the Executive Mansion in Philadelphia with the aid of that city’s free Black community and made her way to Portsmouth. On this tour, you will hear the true story of Ona’s quest for freedom and the President’s relentless efforts to get her back. See the waterfront where she lands and visit…