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…
African Burial Ground Memorial, Chestnut Street Help Support Our Mission During NH Gives Days In times like these, when some are fostering hate and fear, the Black Heritage Trail of New Hampshire counters the narrative with inspiring stories of inclusion, courage, and hope. We are building a way for New Hampshire to proudly present its history with its African American roots that extend to 1645. Your gift ensures that truth is among our highest values in this state and that humanity and the way we connect…
