Another day in Boston. This time I walked the Black Heritage Trail. After that I walked along the Charles river to the Prudential center where I did a little tour in the stores before getting my roommate from the airport. The Black Heritage Trail The free black community in Boston was concerned with finding decent housing, establishing independent supportive institutions, educating their children, and ending slavery in the rest of the nation. Between 1800 and 1900, most of the African Americans who lived in Boston lived in the West End, between Pinckney and Cambridge streets, and between Joy and Charles streets, a neighborhood now called the North Slope of Beacon Hill. Many of these homes are now part of the Black Heritage Trail.
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