Lowell Lecture
Interracial But Not Integrated: African Americans, Native Americans, and New England's Colonial Churches
Date & Time
June 5, 2019 at 6:30 p.m. - 8 p.m.
Location
Old South Meeting House
310 Washington Street Boston, MA 02108
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Speaker(s)
Richard Boles, Assistant Professor of History at Oklahoma State University, specializes in early American and United States history, particularly African American and Native American history from the colonial era to the middle of the nineteenth century, and American religious history. Boles researches race relations in northeastern Protestant churches from 1730 to 1850, and he is revising his first book manuscript.
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Contact
Erica Lindamood (elindamood@osmh.org, 617-482-6439)
Many Native Americans and mostly-enslaved African Americans participated in New England churches between the 1730s and 1790s, including the Old South Meeting House and other Boston churches. They participated by attending services, being baptized, and taking the Lord's Supper, and did so despite segregated seating arrangements and prohibitions against voting and holding church leadership positions. Join us to hear historian Richard Boles share about his ongoing research into the religious lives of the African Americans and Native Americans who affiliated with 18th-century New England churches. This program is co-presented by the Congregational Library & Archives and Old South Meeting House.