Tea Talk: Black Men as Ritual Sacrifice for the Creation of White Identity

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,…

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…

      A Juneteenth Celebration Celebrating the Art of Activism, Cultural Resistance & Everyday Protest Saturday, June 17, 11am-3pm & 7pm– 8:30pm Middle Street Baptist Church 18 Court Street | Portsmouth, NH 03801 ART, MUSIC, DIALOGUE & SONG  Cultural resistance is the broad use of arts, literature, and traditional practices to challenge unjust or oppressive systems within the context of nonviolent actions, campaigns and movements. For this year’s celebration, local African American artists Joel Gill and Richard Hanes will share stories…

TOUR DATES: JUN 24, JUL 22 Port of Entry: Boys and Girls for Sale Sankofa Tour Guide:  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…