The Boston Abolitionists

When:
Sunday, Mar 05, 2017 1:00p -
2:00p

Where:
Boston Athenæum
10 ½ Beacon Street
Boston, MA 02108

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Admission:
$30

Categories:
< 21, Date Idea, Lectures & Conferences, Meetup, Performing Arts

Event website:
http://www.bostonathenaeum.org/events/4444/boston-abolitionists

An ensemble of skilled actors from the Poets' Theatre give voice to the wide range of anti-slavery attitudes in Massachusetts during the decades leading up to the Civil War. Black and white, female and male, well-known and obscure, these important writers and orators, including Lydia Maria Child, Paul Cuffee, Frederick Douglass, and Angelina Grimké Weld, among others, transformed fringe ideas—rejected by many in Boston as dangerous and “fanatical”—into a mainstream movement for emancipation.


The Museum of African American History is New England’s largest museum dedicated to preserving, conserving, and interpreting the contributions of African Americans. In Boston and Nantucket, the museum has preserved four historic sites and two Black Heritage Trails® that tell the story of organized black communities from the colonial period through the 19th century. On view through July 2017 is "Picturing Frederick Douglass: The Most Photographed American of the Nineteenth Century," co-curated by Professors John Stauffer of Harvard University and Zoe Trodd of the University of Nottingham.


The Poets’ Theatre is dedicated to the spoken word. It celebrates the power of distinctive language and poetry’s unmatched ability to deliver a rich and meaningful cultural experience to its audience. It presents cutting edge contemporary poetic drama, classic texts daringly re-imagined, brilliant translations of the greatest plays from around the world, and events structured around the poetic voice, its cultural ambitions, and explorations.


This program is offered in partnership with the Museum of African American History and the Poets’ Theatre.


Registration begins January 23 at 9 am.


To register, go to: https://bbd.bostonathenaeum.org/sslpage.aspx?pid=300
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The Athenæum's five galleried floors overlook the peaceful Granary Burying Ground, and, as Gamaliel Bradford wrote in 1931, "it is safe to say that [no library] anywhere has more an atmosphere of its own, that none is more conducive to intellectual aspiration and spiritual peace." The building was designated as a National Historic Landmark in 1966.

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