"Preface -- Introduction. A Veiled History -- 1. Where Is Black Boston? Geographies of Experience in the Cradle of Liberty, 1638-1900 -- 2. The Black Bostonian

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A "must" introduction to significant African-American events & people in Massachusetts where so much American history began. The first slaves arrived in Boston