Sankofa Tour: Port of Entry: Boys and Girls for Sale

Community Dialogue: Memory, Art, Culture, and Black History

Governor John Langdon House 143 Pleasant Street, Portsmouth, NH

Join JerriAnne Boggis of the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire; Richard Haynes, artist and University of New Hampshire educator; and Ken Turino of Historic New England for a discussion on how African Americans are represented in art and historical contexts, issues around representation in historic houses and museums, and issues of visibility and erasure. Free and open to the public. Please call 603-436-3205 for more information.

Sankofa Walking Tour: Ain’t She A Woman: Let me tell you her story

The Old Meetinghouse 280 Marcy St., Portsmouth, NH

Tour Guide & Sankofa Scholar: Valerie Fagin Can you imagine the hustle and bustle of a prosperous Colonial seaport town? This tour invites you to discover the world of early Portsmouth’s from the perspective of African American women. In spite of enslavement and hardship, these women fought for freedom, defied a president, and educated generations of children to follow. Hear their stories about love and faith and struggle, as you walk past the homes of the families who enslaved them.…

$20

Sankofa Trolley Tours

Christ Episcopal Church 1035 Lafayette Rd., Portsmouth, NH

This informative overview of the Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail is just right for a first visit to the city or for those who prefer an alternative to a walking tour. Our well-trained and experienced Sankofa Scholars narrate an hour and a half tour of sites that tell the stories of Black people from the time they arrived on the colonial-era wharves lining the waterfront, to laboring in the local maritime-related industries, until New Hampshire joined the Union by adopting the…

$25

Sankofa Walking Tour: Port of Entry: Boys and Girls for Sale

The Old Meetinghouse 280 Marcy St., Portsmouth, NH

Tour Guide & Sankofa Scholar: JerriAnne Boggis Local newspapers carried merchants’ ads for ships returning to the port of Portsmouth laden with cargo from trade ports on the West Coast of Africa, the West Indies and the middle Atlantic coastal cities of Colonial America. Visit local wharves and auction sites related to the Atlantic Slave Trade, where a captive could be exchanged for “cash or good lumber” to serve in the master’s house or work on the docks or aboard…

$20

Sankofa Walking Tour: Backyards and Cellar Holes: Who Lived at the MacPhaedris-Warner House?

Warner House 150 Daniel St., Portsmouth, NH

Tour Guide & Sankofa Scholar: Valerie Cunningham & Kevin Wade Mitchell As focus shifts from the front of the house to the backyards and cellar holes of New Hampshire’s historic house museums, we consider some of the material culture experienced by household servants, including those whose black bodies had helped create their white family’s wealth. NOTE: This tour meets at the Warner House, 150 Daniel St. at 2 pm Register Online

$20

Sankofa Walking Tour: Meet Jack Stains, a “Black Jack” in Historic Old Portsmouth: A Living History Tour

The Old Meetinghouse 280 Marcy St., Portsmouth, NH

Tour Guide & Sankofa Scholar: Kevin Wade Mitchel as Jack Staines Seafaring was one of the most significant occupations among both enslaved and free Black men between 1740 and 1865. Black seamen sailed on whalers, warships, and privateers. Some were enslaved and forced to work at sea, but by 1800 most seamen were free to seek adventure and economic opportunity aboard ship. On this tour you will meet Jack Staines, husband to Ona Judge Staines, the President and Martha Washington’s…

$20

12th Annual Black New England Conference

Friday & Saturday, Oct 19-20, 2018 Squamscott Room, Holloway Commons University of New Hampshire Durham NH 2018 Conference Info Conference Schedule Register Online Now

Sankofa Walking Tour: Ain’t She A Woman: Let me tell you her story

The Old Meetinghouse 280 Marcy St., Portsmouth, NH

Tour Guide & Sankofa Scholar: Valerie Fagin Can you imagine the hustle and bustle of a prosperous Colonial seaport town? This tour invites you to discover the world of early Portsmouth’s from the perspective of African American women. In spite of enslavement and hardship, these women fought for freedom, defied a president, and educated generations of children to follow. Hear their stories about love and faith and struggle, as you walk past the homes of the families who enslaved them.…

$20

Tea Talk: On Being Muslim in the Deep North

Southern NH University, Robert Frost Hall, Walker Auditorium, Manchester NH 03106 2500 N River Rd., Hooksett, NH, United States

Free and open to the public One-third of Muslims in the United States are Black, and many African immigrants resettled in New England over the past two decades are Muslim. Despite this, pervasive images of Muslims are limited to people of Arab identity. For this panel, presenters will explore the intersections of their identities as Black Muslims living in post 9/11 New England. Their shared stories will offer perspective and insights about what it means to be part of a…

Book release party!

Book and Bar 40 Pleasant St., Portsmouth, NH, United States

Join us to Celebrate! Please come celebrate with us the release of our first book! Black Heritage Trail of NH has published its first of a planned series of books on Self-Guided Walking Tours in different areas of New Hampshire. First in the series is: Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail: A Self-Guided Walking Tour of Portsmouth, New Hampshire Contributing editors are: Valerie Cunningham, founding member of Portsmouth Black Heritage Trail JerriAnne Boggis, Executive Director, Black Heritage Trail of NH Anne Richter…

Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire

The Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire promotes awareness and appreciation of African American history and life in order to build more inclusive communities today.

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