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

2017 BNEC Call for Papers

11th ANNUAL BLACK NEW ENGLAND CONFERENCE Huddleston Hall, University of New Hampshire October 20 – 21st, 2017 Deadline for Submissions (August 20, 2017) THE SCIENCE & ENGINEERING OF RACE: Living Through the Archives  Modern medical and social sciences have made some extraordinary advances through the exploitation of Black bodies while simultaneously allowing myths of racial inferiority to continue as justification for centuries of enslavement and political disenfranchisement. From the Tuskegee syphilis experiment to the unethical use of Henrietta Lacks’ cells…

Walking Tour: Let Freedom Ring: Resistance, Abolition and Civil Rights

Black Heritage Trail of NH 222 Court Street, Portsmouth, NH, United States

MAY 13, JUN 3, JUL 1 (INDEPENDENCE DAY WEEKEND), AUG 5, SEP 9 Let Freedom Ring: Resistance, Abolition and Civil Rights                                                           Sankofa Tour Guide: Nur Shoop Colonial Portsmouth newspapers testify to local the slave trade, runaways, abolitionists and anti-abolitionist activities, followed by conflicting opinions of the Civil War. In the 20th century,…

$20

Walking Tour: Creating Community: White Enterprise and Black Society

Walking Tour: Creating Community Liberty Flagpole, Marcy St., Portsmouth NH, United States

TOUR DATES: MAY 20, JUN 10, JUL 8, AUG 12, SEP 16 Creating Community: White Enterprise and Black Society  Sankofa Tour Guide: Angela Matthews Institutionalized slavery in the Americas 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 unpaid labor of enslaved African captives and their descendants who, against the odds, created one of this country’s…

$20
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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Mail: 222 Court Street, Portsmouth NH 03801
Phone: 603-570-8469
Email: info@blackheritagetrailnh.org
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