The Boston Athenæum welcomes DAVID GULLETTE, ANNETTE MILLER, VINCENT SIDERS AND CHERYL SINGLETON for a unique historical experience. Compiled by Gullette and directed by BOB SCANLAN, Boston Abolitionists gives 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 […]
Find out more »Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.