The Black Community in Colonial Dorchester and Boston

Historian Alex Goldfeld explores the lives of people of African descent in the predominantly white Massachusetts Bay Colony, including Sebastian Kane, Dorchester’s first black landowner. He also shares his original research on Boston’s New Guinea neighborhood and examines what black life was like in Dorchester, Roxbury, and other parts of New England over three centuries ago. Goldfeld is Historian of the North End Historical Society in Boston. He leads tours, teaches classes, and conducts research on the North End. Goldfeld also served as Director of Operations at Boston’s Museum of African American History.