Black History - Boston

Although it was an important slave port in the 1600s, Boston had an active abolitionist movement by 1700. The Commonwealth of Massachusetts abolished slavery in 1783, and by the 1830s Boston had become the center of American abolitionist sentiment. The 54th Regiment of Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, a black unit from Boston, fought in the Civil War.

While the Great Migration did not have much affect on Boston, the city has received substantial immigration from the Caribbean in recent decades.

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Lunch Per Day
Souvenir Video
Whale Watch
Plimoth Plantation
Sunset Harbor Cruise
Dinner Dance Cruise
"Shear Madness"
JFK Library
Boston Museum of Science

Sample Itinerary

1:00PM	Tour Escort at your hotel
2:00PM	Tour of Salem with admission to the Witch Museum to learn the story of Tituba
3:00PM	View Hawthorne's House of The Seven Gables
4:30PM	Check-in at hotel
6:30PM	Dinner
8:00PM	IMAX Show

7:30AM	Breakfast at your hotel
9:00AM	Guided tour of Boston's Black Heritage Trail
12:00PM	Lunch at group's expense
2:00PM	Visit the U.S.S. Constitution
4:00PM	Visit the Harriet Tubman House
6:30PM	Dinner
*8:00PM	Attend a theatre performance of Sheer Madness

7:30AM	Breakfast and check out
9:00AM	Visit the John F. Kennedy Library. View the video presentation on Civil Rights as seen from the desk of President Kennedy
11:30AM	Lunch at group's expense
12:30PM	Admission to the Museum of Fine Arts to view the permanent gallery devoted to the art and culture of ancient Nubia, a region of northern Africa
3:00PM	Depart for home